Government is the cause of the problem, not the cure it's lauded to be the charlatans.

Suppose you own a city block, and use it to grow carrots. You'd need a licence, inevitably. And you'd be liable to pay innumerable fees, charges, levies, rates and taxes. Fees for the garbage to be theoretically collected, fees for the electricity to be supplied and the water provided and taken away - even if you don't use these services, you pay for having them available. You'd have to pay for a government inspector to monitor that you employ a socially-acceptable mix of carrot-pickers, by sex, race, religion, age, sexual preference - almost anything other than skill at carrot-picking.

Then you'd have to employ a nurse in case your carrot-pickers got sick or injured themselves while at work. And your carrot-packing facilities would have to comply with a tome of regulations governing layout, colours and locations of painted lines and handrails that everyone ignores anyway, and you would be responsible for training on any machinery you use. If a worker get injured using machinery on which they are not trained, even if you have issued them with specific instructions to not use that machine, then you are responsible for that, too.

Now - how much do you have to charge for your carrots to make a sufficient profit to put the food on your own table, after paying the inevitable taxes on your sales and have paid for the accountant to tell the government all this, along with all of the useless and irrelevant statistics on which they insist?

Remember - the taxes paid depends on SOCIETY'S assessment of the value of the land - essentially what revenue the government and "entrepreneurs" could derive if your carrot-patch was replaced by a skyscraper.

The point is that the politicians take no risk at all, but demand the first share of any profit that's made AND the "right" to dictate terms and conditions. They are free in the public mind to denigrate employers who farm out jobs to countries with a less intrusive bureaucracy as traitorous exploiters of low-cost workers when it is government itself that is adding the extra cost to ingratiate itself with the electorate.

Mahatma Ghandi wrote his "Seven Blunders of the World"
* Wealth without work
* Pleasure without conscience
* Knowledge without character
* Commerce without morality
* Science without humanity
* Worship without sacrifice
* Politics without principle

His grandson, Arun added the all-important eighth
* Rights without responsibilities

Point well taken.

Cheers