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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
No. I expect technological progress. "Society" itself can't progress. Society can only get collectively stupider and harder to successfully navigate because of ever increasing bureaucracy, rules, and faux-mores
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Tell me about it. When I was out of work a few years ago, I tried to start my own company, and I got told I wasn't allowed to do so while receiving unemployment benefits.
It came down to the fact that if I *did* start a company, I would be considered to work 40 hours a week and have a full income from the moment the company was created. That's obviously impossible.
Then I looked into other avenues of earning an income besides just finding work, and the one thing I always encountered was:
"You're not allowed to do that."
Even starting your own company while working is impossible, because if you do anything that can be considered to belong in the field of the company you work for, they own everything you do, even if you do it in your own time and on your own computer. A webdesigner creating a website for someone, in his own time, is therefore violating his contract and the law if he works as a webdesigner. So.... here we go again.
"You're not allowed to do that."
It's the one thing I hear most often over here in the Netherlands, when you want to get shit done. You know how you can get it done? By quitting your job, taking out a 50K or 100K loan so you can pay yourself and taxes for a year or 2-3, and *hope* your company takes off. If not, you'll be dead broke and bankrupt for the rest of your life.