Right, a source of far too much capital put into hair-brained ideas because most of the time it's capital controlled by people with more money than sense.
If we taxed people sensibly and spread it around, then there would be a lot more capital available to the average person wishing to start a business.
because most of the time it's capital controlled by people with more money than sense.
For that you go to Softbank.
If we taxed people sensibly and spread it around, then there would be a lot more capital available to the average person wishing to start a business.
I don't see how that would work over and beyond what we do today: have government secured funds with strings attached. Given the choice I'd take VC or PE based capital over a government backed fund.
You can't 'spread it around' without taxing more. VC/PE is cheap: it is money on which taxes have already been paid and if it does not work then it's their loss, not society's loss.
Besides that the average amount of capital required to start a company is very low these days, but still much higher than the amount at which these government funds typically kick in unless they are co-investing in a larger ticket.
VC/PE is cheap: it is money on which taxes have already been paid and if it does not work then it's their loss, not society's loss.
Society has already lost that money when the income wasn't taxed as heavily as it could have been.
Given the choice I'd take VC or PE based capital over a government backed fund.
If we spread money about through some kind of basic income then it wouldn't be government funds, it would be crowdfunding and community lending schemes.
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Those millionaires then tend to go on to fund the next wave.
If you're thinking of SV as a source of tech then you are missing the point: SV is a source of capital.
Right, a source of far too much capital put into hair-brained ideas because most of the time it's capital controlled by people with more money than sense.
If we taxed people sensibly and spread it around, then there would be a lot more capital available to the average person wishing to start a business.
For that you go to Softbank.
I don't see how that would work over and beyond what we do today: have government secured funds with strings attached. Given the choice I'd take VC or PE based capital over a government backed fund.
You can't 'spread it around' without taxing more. VC/PE is cheap: it is money on which taxes have already been paid and if it does not work then it's their loss, not society's loss.
Besides that the average amount of capital required to start a company is very low these days, but still much higher than the amount at which these government funds typically kick in unless they are co-investing in a larger ticket.
Well let's tax more then.
Society has already lost that money when the income wasn't taxed as heavily as it could have been.
If we spread money about through some kind of basic income then it wouldn't be government funds, it would be crowdfunding and community lending schemes.