<story><title>Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-entrepreneurs-shortage-solutions-1.7002171</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaptheimpaler</author><text>This article itself is a great case study. The implicit structure of this article is that Lynn got fired and became an entrepreneur because he was &lt;i&gt;forced&lt;/i&gt; into it. They never asked him anything about what it would take to get more entrepreneurs or make his life as an entrepreneur easier.&lt;p&gt;Instead they asked 4 professors of entrepreneurship &amp;amp; govt. ministers who probably weren&amp;#x27;t entrepreneurs. These people mentioned &lt;i&gt;twice&lt;/i&gt; that one of the reasons for low entrepreneurship is because unemployment is too low and jobs pay too well... the whole push for this is coming from callous bureaucrats who&amp;#x27;ve never been anywhere close to entrepreneurship who apparently believe its so bad that the only reason someone would do it is if they have no other options..&lt;p&gt;What a joke.. it&amp;#x27;s hard to believe this level of stupidity , it might just be malice (a pretext to justify raising interest rates and increase unemployment)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>opportune</author><text>This is what happens in a world where “experts” are merely those with “certifications at the expert level” and not people with actual knowledge and experience.&lt;p&gt;That kind of world is an inevitable outcome of large bureaucracies and over-reliance on qualifications. You don’t just get idiocracy, you get Untruths and policies oriented around expanding the bureaucracy rather than addressing problems. See also: Lysenkoism in the USSR, EU’s model of funding startups through grants.&lt;p&gt;I honestly think this one of the things the US does way, way better than other developed countries. We pay a price in cronyism and corruption, but we actually let industry experts with real experience both advise on policy and take key government positions. We don’t pretend you need a PhD in X to be knowledgeable about X to nearly the same extent as Canada and the Eu.&lt;p&gt;You can’t just stick a midwit in a university for 10 years and expect them to be anything other than a midwit, and you can’t expert an organization that values compliance and internal politics more than performance and effectiveness to produce performant or effective leaders. You can’t bureaucracy your way into a free market either.</text></comment>
<story><title>Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago</title><url>https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-entrepreneurs-shortage-solutions-1.7002171</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zaptheimpaler</author><text>This article itself is a great case study. The implicit structure of this article is that Lynn got fired and became an entrepreneur because he was &lt;i&gt;forced&lt;/i&gt; into it. They never asked him anything about what it would take to get more entrepreneurs or make his life as an entrepreneur easier.&lt;p&gt;Instead they asked 4 professors of entrepreneurship &amp;amp; govt. ministers who probably weren&amp;#x27;t entrepreneurs. These people mentioned &lt;i&gt;twice&lt;/i&gt; that one of the reasons for low entrepreneurship is because unemployment is too low and jobs pay too well... the whole push for this is coming from callous bureaucrats who&amp;#x27;ve never been anywhere close to entrepreneurship who apparently believe its so bad that the only reason someone would do it is if they have no other options..&lt;p&gt;What a joke.. it&amp;#x27;s hard to believe this level of stupidity , it might just be malice (a pretext to justify raising interest rates and increase unemployment)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bbarnett</author><text>&lt;i&gt;What a joke.. it&amp;#x27;s hard to believe this level of stupidity , it might just be malice (a pretext to justify raising interest rates and increase unemployment)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The political branch of the government does not control interest rates, nor have any say in them.  The Prime Minister cannot raise or lower interest rates.&lt;p&gt;This is the same in most western democracies, as such things cannot be left to political control.</text></comment>