It helps you warm up with fresh ideas, encourages you to become an entrepreneur. A whole team of cheerleaders is present at the start. And after the first kilometer, with 41 to go, you are on your own. The system bashes you, the entrepreneur, with taxes, asks you to pre-finance VAT, expects you to know everything about accounting and employment laws. The government itself attracts the best people by offering them better and more benefits. And for every mistake you make, you are fined without warning.
Having started a company in Europe and growing increasingly delusional, frustrated and perplexed with the vast difference between government rhetoric and the reality on the ground, I have to say that this is sadly true.
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