Google and Yahoo do buy up and absorb. But the small guy as a legitimate way to do business-business for the purpose of selling a product and serving customers as opposed to serving shareholders is not considered to be ideal right now, from what I see. But I'm in red state central so the attitudes I see reflect the region and its profound lack of initiative too. Tax money is given away hand over fist to attract $10 an hour manufacturing jobs from elsewhere. An official actually referred to the reopening of a local iron mine as a "return of high tech" to Southern Utah recently. Yet many of these folks think their dribble of tax money is actually supporting the "freeloading blue states". Pretty funny, actually.
However did you guess that Utah is pyramid scheme central? "Self employment" and "pyramid scheme" are considered to be interchangeable terms here.
We keep track of all records too, but the state board disputed the usefulness of the records from cons. The control sheets from art shows were not enough as far as she was concerned. Verifying them all would "take too much time." I was glad when I moved to a state where they're so poor the government can't afford personal attention like that. I'm all legal and on the up and up but "needing to get w-9's" to "prove" it was annoying as hell.:P
Re: Corporate dictatorship
But the small guy as a legitimate way to do business-business for the purpose of selling a product and serving customers as opposed to serving shareholders is not considered to be ideal right now, from what I see. But I'm in red state central so the attitudes I see reflect the region and its profound lack of initiative too. Tax money is given away hand over fist to attract $10 an hour manufacturing jobs from elsewhere. An official actually referred to the reopening of a local iron mine as a "return of high tech" to Southern Utah recently. Yet many of these folks think their dribble of tax money is actually supporting the "freeloading blue states". Pretty funny, actually.
However did you guess that Utah is pyramid scheme central? "Self employment" and "pyramid scheme" are considered to be interchangeable terms here.
We keep track of all records too, but the state board disputed the usefulness of the records from cons. The control sheets from art shows were not enough as far as she was concerned. Verifying them all would "take too much time."
I was glad when I moved to a state where they're so poor the government can't afford personal attention like that. I'm all legal and on the up and up but "needing to get w-9's" to "prove" it was annoying as hell.:P