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Now take that beautiful application you have made and your customers want, and beg the trolls who sit between you and them for permission to distribute it.

Assuming you get said permission some weeks later, now hand over double-digit percentages of your top-line revenue to these despicable rent-seekers, do the same with your tax payments and notice how you're left with less than 30% of the value you have created.




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