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On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 14:00:57 -0700, john larkin wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:53:19 +0100, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:22:26 -0000 (UTC)
>>RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 
>>> Not sure that holds on a number of levels - technology was supposed to
>>> result in a 3 day week and prosperity for all when I was growing up in
>>> the 60s.
>>> 
>>> And I've just come across Jevons paradox while studying retrofit. The
>>> notion that as technology increases efficiency and reduces cost, a
>>> sort of dumb reaction happens, where people tend to consume more -
>>> 'leave the heating on - it's an ASHP and hardly using any electricity'
>>> type of thing. Apparently it's quite common in energy efficient homes.
>>> 
>>> 
>>That's one factor, another is the enormous increase in regulations since
>>the Sixties. Not only is government much larger, but private businesses
>>must employ or hire accountants, compliance officers and other lawyers
>>to keep the directors out of jail. The work force has to a large degree
>>shifted from productive work to non-productive work.
> 
> Starting a business is horrible. You need a zillion registrations and
> businesses licenses, local and state and federal. You need a lawyer (at
> $500/hour)  and an accountant and a business manager, three overhead
> people for one working employee. And a  Board of Directors and insurance
> for them.
> 
> Not to mention product liability insurance, UL and FCC and CE
> compliance, ITAR and stuff.

Aside from the unavoidable Federal stuff, I gather it's much less 
burdensome in Florida.