If US leaders were actually interested in talented people starting businesses, they would implement these two policies IMMEDIATELY:

  1. Universal healthcare not tied to employment

  2. Universal childcare

Right now, we needlessly eliminate most businesses through dumb policies. 👇

The idiotic lack of these wildly popular, zero-downside policies destroys potential jobs, INNOVAY-SHUN, and particularly scalable businesses.

Even those with the moxie and hubris and acumen to succeed in business have to hedge their bets and start non-scalable services companies.

Now, there’s nothing wrong with non-scalable services companies and many business starters (and potential ones) love the work, but in my anecdotal experience a solid percentage of them would (and have tried to) pursue more scalable concepts but couldn’t risk healthcare/family.

“But that’s what venture capital is for. Raise the money.”

91% of VC money goes to men, and 94% of VC money goes to white or Asian (17%) people. And the biggest checks always go to the same guys from the same colleges cycling through the same circuit.

“But immigrants with nothing start businesses all the time. We’re just lazy.”

Immigrants with nothing have two choices: Work the jobs Americans aren’t interested in for low wages or start businesses chosen from a proven list of formulas a la franchising.

“But real entrepreNEURRRS will take the risks necessary to succeed.”

Dude, I’m probably the riskyest risktaking riskyboy I know, but I’m not risking my children’s lives. No one should.

Hundreds of thousands of potential JAHHHB creators are stuck in a job for the healthcare.

“They shouldn’t have kids if they want to start a business!”

Go think about that and wait for the heat death of the universe.

Also, having been both a parent and a non-parent business owner, I can assure you that parents are better at business (sorry non-parents, you’re great).

There are many reasons why US leaders will never do these obvious things, but it’s actually worse than that (and I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt): They will actually never even UNDERSTAND why they might do these things.

The Venn Diagram of US leaders looks like this.

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I’m done with leaders saying that small business is important while standing in the way of everything that actually leads to more and better businesses.

Both parties are complicit. One is just shameless while the other lies through its teeth and wonders why people don’t trust it.