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- on EU Inc. Explained: Europe’s New Plan to Start a Business in 48 Hours for €100. (Video) in c/europe@feddit.org · 15 Sep 2026
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on EU Inc. Explained: Europe’s New Plan to Start a Business in 48 Hours for €100. (Video) in c/europe@feddit.org · 15 Sep 2026
Arguably the main problem is national taxes and social contributions. It’s extremely expensive to operate and disproportionately affects small business. Getting started isn’t really the problem, staying afloat is. I suspect lowering the entry barriers will largely result in more insolvencies.
I can only speak for Germany from experience but it really feels like everything you get, you don’t get. It’s just working for the tax department with extra steps and terrible pay.
A small shop will turnover about 30k per month, 10k will go on taxes and non-optional non-taxes like GEMA, GEZ, IHK, BGN, etc. 3 full time staff will absorb 10k in minimum wages and social contributions. The remaining 10k have to cover 2k rent, 1k insurances, stock purchases, packaging purchases, advertising, legal and administrative services, energy costs, some liquidity savings (machines need service, sometimes replacing). There’s nothing left for the owner-operator to live off and they also have rents, social security, energy and taxes to pay. It’s not really viable to do a small business unless it’s something with huge value addition to beat the curve.
The administrative start up cost isn’t the hurdle, it’s macro economics. The money is sucked out of small enterprises because the big corporations aren’t taxable, they have the resources and political backing to avoid being taxed the same way.
Its better to work a bullshit job.
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on UN working towards international treaty to regulate killer robots in c/technology@piefed.social · 6 Sep 2026
When Russia invaded Ukraine, all the European border countries immediately mined the border territories 🤷 arms control is a peacetime publicity move. As soon as war becomes a possibility we fire up the meat-grinder. And even more perversely, we celebrate it.
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on Chemistrule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026
Perhaps a nice tea or pipe-weed
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on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
I will lower your taxes and raise everyone else’s!
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on U.S. preparing to force Netherlands to ban ASML from selling to China in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
This is like how Americans think they’re from other places. I’m Italian! Declares a fifth generation American who speaks no Italian and has never left New Jersey
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on U.S. preparing to force Netherlands to ban ASML from selling to China in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
I thought he was talking about the US😂
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on U.S. preparing to force Netherlands to ban ASML from selling to China in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Like the headstart Germany had in solar, high speed rail, and automotive?
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on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
What’s your alternative?
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on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
As an earlier post pointed out - the Ai industry stole everything with the support of the government at our expense. The point is moot.
If the Chinese theft benefits us as consumers then they are the Robin Hood of computation hardware. The good guys.
They didn’t steal from “us”. They stole from the billionaires. I’m fine with it.
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on Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
Margaret Thatcher
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on Facebook Is Drowning In Islamophobic AI Slop Calling for Violence Against Muslim Americans in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
You just made an enemy for life!
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on Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
It identifies it so that it can be covered up.
Hope that clears it up.
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on Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
What if they put it in rice?
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on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
I think the idea is to stop people from browsing and make them rely on ai
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on If it ain't broke, don't fix it in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
True freedom means responsibility. You should have the right to destroy yourself and your OS
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on US Cities Cancel 50+ Flock Surveillance Contracts Amid Public Backlash in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
Your forefathers are weeping from the grave. Land of the Free. Lol.
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on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
Sounds like something a bot would say
I’m not suggesting social contributions should go. But that’s the cost of doing business and as such a lot of smaller enterprises simply can’t afford to do business. It becomes a bigger money game. Which I think is problematic.