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It is easy to run a small business. From incorporation to taxes to corporate actions to banking to employment.
A bill like this creates a large barrier for a small tech company. I'm not even in the space it's intended for but will be affected by what it brings.
One part constantly fears it's missing a beat and jumps on new tech without thinking about it.
Another part believes that kids are able to construct all human knowledge by playing together in a field.
Education Technology seems to focus on selling education machines [1] (now with AI) to the first group while the second group focus on resenting any form of testing at all. Which leads to * , indeed, a huge legal minefield, that will be shirked up to government for 'not providing leadership' years down the road.
* If you are in any way involved with a school, ask them how many, and importantly what %, of non-statutory requests for comment from government agencies they've responded to, you may be surprised how low the number is or if they even count. Despite talking about 'leadership', not a lot walk the talk.
I'm not in the US. They're a thing (certainly used to be, when I was there) in Europe and I imagine they must be in the US too.
I fail to see the need to have worked poorly backed political ideologies into an unrelated post unless the intention was to FUD or flame.
The core point
> Yes it can be occupational, but it can also be applied to home, location, country or life.
Completely.
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In France, for example, you're far more likely to get into a top university if you have a parent that's a teacher. I postulate here: the interdisciplinary learning system, vs. the Anglo subject focused system, that looks good on paper works out quite hard to find success in without knowing success in navigating it and putting the pieces together.
In Germany, good luck becomming the CEO of a large company without the right breeding. It happens, but not a lot. There's turtles all the way down, from managing relationships with other stakeholders (i.e., knowing who runs them) to bank funding (funding from stock is less prevalent than Anglo, it's mainly debt funding, importance of Landesbanks). Screw the well qualified engineers, middle management will squash them sucking up the class divide at the top.
Sweden, prized for community. "So fucking claustrophobic I had to leave", "curtains twitch, everyone watches each other", "if you don't conform to the system, you need to be strong" "a nice place to retire, possibly" not only one Swede has said to me on their experiences on getting out [emigrating], interestingly all from smaller southern towns. [Interestingly, 'Collectivism' being the flip-side of 'Individualism' can mean those on the 'outside' of the collective have a much harder time than when there's no, or a weak, collective. See [1] Geert-Hofstede 'Model of national culture'].
Europe's very class based, it's less transparent, more insidious.
[1] https://geerthofstede.com/culture-geert-hofstede-gert-jan-ho...
Instead I quit. Because it was quite apparent AWS was locking me into both a dependence on their workflow and a sunk cost fallacy that it'd take as long to set up something equally functional somewhere as all the hoops and AWS way had there.
Jump before you're consumed dear friends.