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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by refurb on Saturday June 12, 2021 @08:44PM (#27488747)
I never made that claim at all.

What I claimed is without jobs and companies (economic activity) you cant collect taxes which pay for social safety nets.

Am I wrong? Or is there magic fairy dust to pay for a social safety net I don’t know about?

Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by Fargren on Sunday June 13, 2021 @06:24AM (#27491371)
No, you did not claim that. You said that the reason "society optimize for how easy it is to start a business" is that "new companies create jobs" which leads to the safety net.

That implies that making it easier top start a business is a requirement for the safety net; after all, you wrote that funding for the safety net is the reason creating companies should be made easy.

It follows that wherever there is funding for a safety net, businesses are easy to start. So how come that in Europe businesses are -allegedly- so hard to start, but there is a strong social safety net?

TL;DR: Europe is proof that it's possible to have a certain level of regulation to business while still having enough successful businesses to fund a strong social safety net.