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0 pointsmellosouls6y ago0 comments

1. Plenty of home grown top talent. Nothing wrong with recruiting further afield, but it's often used to low ball wages and rights.

2. Workers rights.

3. I've no idea why you think people don't run businesses from their homes already.

4. Depends on the government of the time, and why do you think racing to the bottom on public funding is a good thing?

5. We already have free trade. Try getting in tariff battles with no strength outside the EU.

Tbh all those points seem dubious at best.

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agent008t6y ago

I mostly agree with this: http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html

And I think an argument could be made that being more competitive on all those points would be easier outside the EU.

I suspect you would disagree with Paul's essay/the goals he outlined, and that's fine. My point is that if you did agree with his essay, you might see that Brexit could also open opportunities.

mellosoulsOP6y ago

Thanks for the link, I'll read it later.

I wouldn't dispute there are potential benefits to Brexit, I'm saying there are no obvious winning arguments, and clear counters to all of yours.

Also by purely framing it in terms of business, you are in danger of making two errors:

1. Assuming all business has the same needs, and all business owners have the same perspective.

2. Much more importantly, business is just one factor of the national life affected by the split, and - as pointed out -has a natural tension with other issues like rights and standards that you haven't addressed.

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