[moorow]

I own a tech consulting company in Australia. What rules are you talking about? The only change that's come in recently that's affected us is the changes to fixed-term contracts, and that's an entirely fair change to stop employees from getting dicked over by bad employers. Likewise, moving super through one-touch payroll is a great change that literally only affects dodgy employers.

The reason we're a country that digs shit out of the ground in lieu of doing anything else is the same reason why virtually all investment in the country is in real estate: it's not taxed highly enough to encourage people to diversify, and it's a sector that's too big to fail. Why would you invest in your mate's new tech company and potentially lose it all when you can throw it into a property with almost literally zero risk and far better returns?

[zooq_ai]

In Tech consulting, you can pass of all your regulations and cost to your client.

In fact consulting thrives exactly because of government overreach.

Startups are complete opposite of Consulting

[moorow]

Dunno about you guys, but we're not charging doing payroll, management or regulatory compliance to our clients unless it's specifically requested/required by the client.

You could say "oh but that cost is bundled into your rates", but that cost is also bundled into your product fees for a product start-up, so..?

We don't have to do r&d documentation but we also don't get r&d reimbursements. Not a lot else different from a back-office perspective.

[trog]

Huh? If you're a startup you still have to absorb regulatory costs somehow.

If they're not getting passed on to the customer, they are getting picked up by the VCs. This is pretty normal.