Spanish entrepeneurship
Stop Making profit! (change the domain from whitehouse to la-moncloa.es)
He said that in Spain there is a tremendous fear of failure, and therefore the level of entrepreneurship is the lowest in Europe. I agree, but let me add one more cause: hate to success. The model of the dog who neither eats nor lets eat.
Let me explain: you try to build upon an idea, but nobody pays damn attention (at best, at worst they laugh at your face), so you have to go to the other side of the world. But when you say it, voices start to reproach, precisely, about you going taking the idea elsewhere. And be careful if it works and you dare to come back …
That anger, that hatred towards the one that gets or tries to leave by its own means off the stagnant well of shit, is terrible. In a country of lordly fops and deal-obtainers, those who dare not to go along by their rules, are faced with death. Social, and economic if possible.
We can find another example, a website of links to TV shows and movies, that a journalist decided to ‘investigate’, publishing full names of those responsible, company name and, tadaaa: estimated monthly income, based on some esoteric calculations from other similar websites.
At the time, the guys in charge opted to close some of its accounts and blogs, I guess to avoid the trolling or a DDoS attack, so fashionable lately.
Another plausible option is that these people do not want to be in the public eye, under the scrutiny of the mass of commentators, pundits and other screaming zombies. Because unlike ants, when humans gather in large numbers creating a “mass”, “collective intelligence” becomes “subprime intelligence”.
It did take no time to start reading out pearls and diamonds the size of “those who go down, has something to hide”, “now we have a live Wikileaks of our own”, or to launch accusations to those guys of being freeloaders, usurpers, thieves and other niceties when, little less than two years ago, these same pundits boasted of distributing similar products for free. Pure Party Approved Bullying®.
Being in business in this country is really difficult. Procedures are slow, stupid, expensive and sometimes duplicate. Obviously, everyone will be eager to suck money at the expense of who had the audacity of wanting to be different.
And when things do not go well, the same way in reverse. Even to close the firm, friends of your money appear everywhere. From the state to the notary, through the accountant.
But as the thing goes minimally good, then they start to appear: critics, ethicists, researchers and opinion leaders who are dedicated to systematically destroy, brick by brick, the house that one took so long to build.
Earn money for your work? Benefiting from an idea? And, moreover, economic profits? Who the hell would think that! Capitalist pigs… damn bloody oppressors … let’s redistribute their wealth! Collectivization for The Common Good®!
Oh, and I forgot the “If not for me, not for anybody®”.
It is nobody’s business what this or that company bills or fails to bill. If someone gets mad when a company moves forward and charge for their services or products, I believe that in North Korea there are still some untapped field of beets.
But, it’s always more important to wikilick the deal-obtainers, and that those who have ideas, those who bring them out and build a boat, which by the way, the state slashes them with taxes, it is important that these people end up disgusted and closing the shed (and incidentally stopping to pay those wonderful, succulent taxes, although it seems that nobody has thought of it).
Either that or going somewhere else where the winds are more favourable, and the population of zombies is as small as possible, or in the process of extinction. Perhaps this is the solution, the creative brain drain increasing to a level that the country will finally sink completely, being able make tabula rasa.
But do not expect me.
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