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>if you cut corners, you may be rich, but then I'll think you're a bad boy!

Uh oh, a moral judgement from a peasant? Say it aint so. Anything but that. I'm literally shaking right now.

Anyway, here are some actual incentives:

- If you do some shady corner-cutting, you'll be legally compelled to trade in your Bugatti and drive a used Kia the rest of your life

- If this chemical causes bodily harm to me, we shall inflict bodily harm on thee

- A portion of the profits will be placed in a trust and will be passed down to your children, if and only if your product lasts long enough to be passed down to our children

- If you (banker) lose our money, you will lose your head



These rules discourage new businesses from starting and you end up in a situation like France where their largest company is some fashion company formed eons ago (probably before all the regulations).


> These rules discourage new businesses from starting

No. They encourage new businesses to start without compromising on the fundamental stuff.


France is an extremely wealthy country with possibly the best quality of life in the world - many would say better than in the English-speaking countries home to most of HN.




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