Advanced warning: this post is some of my long winded musings from which you may want to spare yourself.
First, let's establish via assumption if not outright stipulate, the business regulatory climate has increasingly exerted control over the business sector. I don't really feel like proving the obvious now, but if you're dubious about this stipulation, think about how bank regs have diminished access to capital - especially among startups, Obama care regs, family leave, EPA. We could do this as long as we have patience. Just think about long sought carbon credits.
Regulations are an impediment to entry. Established businesses may struggle under regulatory ruberic, but startups are eliminated.
There is a sentiment in America that socialism/communism couldn't take hold in America during the Great Depression because, (as noted by Steinbeck, purportedly) the American proletariat feels like nascent capitalists. Said differently: American workers have observed industrious poor being lifted to prosperity in sufficient quantity that they won't accept socialist aspersions to the link between hard work and prosperity. Think about the link between laborer - business owner - prosperity. My cousin illustrates this point: she's a hair cutter, a popular hair cutter. She can make $1000 a week like she used to working in a mall shop and be comfortable. Several years ago she became a capitalist, and borrowed money, and bought a shop, and hired hair cutters. Now she makes enough to be classified and vilified and taxed by Barry as rich. All sorts of start ups are analogous to this example, and these startups are being severely impeded with modern regulations. These would be capitalists remain Obama surfs. A couple generations of Obama surfdom will make the American proletariat a more fertile recruitment ground for communism.
First, let's establish via assumption if not outright stipulate, the business regulatory climate has increasingly exerted control over the business sector. I don't really feel like proving the obvious now, but if you're dubious about this stipulation, think about how bank regs have diminished access to capital - especially among startups, Obama care regs, family leave, EPA. We could do this as long as we have patience. Just think about long sought carbon credits.
Regulations are an impediment to entry. Established businesses may struggle under regulatory ruberic, but startups are eliminated.
There is a sentiment in America that socialism/communism couldn't take hold in America during the Great Depression because, (as noted by Steinbeck, purportedly) the American proletariat feels like nascent capitalists. Said differently: American workers have observed industrious poor being lifted to prosperity in sufficient quantity that they won't accept socialist aspersions to the link between hard work and prosperity. Think about the link between laborer - business owner - prosperity. My cousin illustrates this point: she's a hair cutter, a popular hair cutter. She can make $1000 a week like she used to working in a mall shop and be comfortable. Several years ago she became a capitalist, and borrowed money, and bought a shop, and hired hair cutters. Now she makes enough to be classified and vilified and taxed by Barry as rich. All sorts of start ups are analogous to this example, and these startups are being severely impeded with modern regulations. These would be capitalists remain Obama surfs. A couple generations of Obama surfdom will make the American proletariat a more fertile recruitment ground for communism.