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monero-xmr | 3 days ago

The UK is poor and getting poorer every year. People simply don’t start companies there. Making the labor market even worse isn’t going to fix the structural issues that are reducing living standards year after year

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n4r9|3 days ago

That claim doesn't hold up to the figures: https://www.smeweb.com/total-number-of-uk-businesses-rises-d...

Anonyneko|3 days ago

>the number of employing businesses decreasing by 9,000 (0.7%), but the number of non-employing businesses rising by 201,000 (4.9%)

Isn't "non-employing business" an euphemism of sorts for "Uber driver"? No idea though if the UK is already forcing Uber to hire drivers and couriers as employees or not yet.

jen20|3 days ago

Most of the fall in living standards since 2016 can be attributed solely to one thing: Brexit.