Want more startups? Build a better safety net

This might be an unpopular opinion here, but I think that there already are plenty of start ups (and I do not live in the bay). The author is probably right that reducing risk will create more entrepreneurs, but I don&#x27;t &quot;want more startups&quot;.<p>That&#x27;s how capitalism works, the grand reward of making it big motivates entrepreneurs to do the extra work and take the additional risk to succeed.<p>Of course there would be successes that would arise due to the welfare state... but at what cost?

This is exactly true for me. I&#x27;ve always wanted to start a business and would have done so at several points in my career. But I have a family that I need to keep covered under some sort of health insurance, so I keep working for other people.

Somehow that just cries UBI to me. But this will always be torpedoed by the naysayers who predict that the majority will then just kick back and play video games all day instead of working to make their visions become reality.

Then there will be plenty of startups for the purpose of getting safety net at the expense of legitimate startups