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I thought this blog post ironic since it said stuff like "free trial of open source" and "Industry 4.0."

I also think it's crazy that the government forces businesses to be profitable.

In a sense, the US government does the same thing. In the US tax code, you can can deduct business expenses to reduce taxes — ie, subtract expenses for a corporation you control from your personal income. This has been known be abused, as folks deduct their personal car, house, travel… as a result, if you have a business that goes long enough without a profit, the IRS will look really hard at it to make sure it’s not really leisure.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/irc183activitiesnotengagedin...

> if you have a business that goes long enough without a profit, the IRS will look really hard at it to make sure it’s not really leisure.

Uber lost 20 billion dollars in the last decade. Where's IRS?

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