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Cutting off your nose to spite your face

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  • Niksan
    Niksan Posts: 309 Forumite
    Could start by all those on Dragons Den with a full house of "I'm out" to take a cricket bat to the face to discourage the possibility of wasting time and money in something that might possibly fail. ;)
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    If I go bust because I take a risk on starting a business you want me stuck in prison. I don't see how that improves anything. Can you enlighten me? There's clearly something I'm missing.

    Job creation Gen!
    Prison builders, warders, security light maintenance, cooks etc.

    Oh, & lets not forget the judiciary - you'd be keeping them in work.

    (lets ignore the fact all this'd need paying for eh?);)
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • abaxas
    abaxas Posts: 4,141 Forumite
    lemonjelly wrote: »
    Job creation Gen!
    Prison builders, warders, security light maintenance, cooks etc.

    Oh, & lets not forget the judiciary - you'd be keeping them in work.

    (lets ignore the fact all this'd need paying for eh?);)

    Everything needs paying for.

    Maybe I'd just some values to return to Britain, something which has been out of fashion for too long.

    More to the point, I have no issues paying for it.
  • Percy1983
    Percy1983 Posts: 5,244 Forumite
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    To say there is parts of the world you could go to prison for a cheque bouncing, maybe we aren't harsh enough here.
    Have my first business premises (+4th business) 01/11/2017
    Quit day job to run 3 businesses 08/02/2017
    Started third business 25/06/2016
    Son born 13/09/2015
    Started a second business 03/08/2013
    Officially the owner of my own business since 13/01/2012
  • markharding557
    markharding557 Posts: 3,116 Forumite
    abaxas wrote: »
    I dont want that.

    I want capitalism with pain on failure. Short term prison / forced labour would be fine.
    Do you know how much it costs to keep someone in prison?
    I heard a figure of £40,000pa on tv.
    This does not make sense when such a person can be doing something to pay at least some of it back which they often have to.
  • Percy1983
    Percy1983 Posts: 5,244 Forumite
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    Why not turn it into a system like a student loan, where as you pay it back if income is above a certain threshold, some will pay it back eventually and other will die before it ever paid back, but something would be recovered.
    Have my first business premises (+4th business) 01/11/2017
    Quit day job to run 3 businesses 08/02/2017
    Started third business 25/06/2016
    Son born 13/09/2015
    Started a second business 03/08/2013
    Officially the owner of my own business since 13/01/2012
  • Kohoutek
    Kohoutek Posts: 2,861 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    lemonjelly wrote: »
    Job creation Gen!
    Prison builders, warders, security light maintenance, cooks etc.
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    We obviously don't have enough pro-prison lobbying in the UK!

    Not the case in the US (where they incidentally have loads of prisons), they have the Corrections Corporation of America!
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    I believe in the old days of debtors prison, the relatives of the debtor were expected to pay for their keep or they starved. Does seem a little harsh for running the card over the limit though.
  • Percy1983
    Percy1983 Posts: 5,244 Forumite
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    ILW wrote: »
    I believe in the old days of debtors prison, the relatives of the debtor were expected to pay for their keep or they starved. Does seem a little harsh for running the card over the limit though.

    But people wouldn't run a card over the limit if that happened.
    Have my first business premises (+4th business) 01/11/2017
    Quit day job to run 3 businesses 08/02/2017
    Started third business 25/06/2016
    Son born 13/09/2015
    Started a second business 03/08/2013
    Officially the owner of my own business since 13/01/2012
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Percy1983 wrote: »
    But people wouldn't run a card over the limit if that happened.

    From some of the posts on here, I think many still would.
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