Same thing happens in the USA, even in Pennsylvania.
You hire a bunch of people, then after a few years, you can get money from the state on a per-employee basis to keep your people here and not move to say, Ohio. The startup business does not have such access to those funds. So your per-employee costs drop but the startup's costs do not.
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One brilliant comment from the article - that he loves bribes now that he is established, and the pay-wall locks out upstart competitors.
Same thing happens in the USA, even in Pennsylvania.
You hire a bunch of people, then after a few years, you can get money from the state on a per-employee basis to keep your people here and not move to say, Ohio. The startup business does not have such access to those funds. So your per-employee costs drop but the startup's costs do not.