You have to wonder how much of that is Public Liability Insurance, as well as the PL, they expect you to hold as a stall owner individually?....blimey...we've been talking about the ways in which bureaucracy, red tape, and parasitic money grubbing is KILLING small business in rural OZ, on another site lately...it's not any one thing, but a mixture or culmination of factors...Greed would be the common thread....
e.g. Ever wondered what happened to our once prolific live music culture?........Years ago, some idiot imposed Entertainment Licenses on all venues including restaurants and that was the end of music = the end of the pub/club music scene, = the end of a HUGE amount of business. I remember a time when Sydney the city, was full of people at night, going out to various venues.....but the same could be said for every suburb too.....we rocked...but not now....
Public Liability Insurance, has been another scourge on business and commerce, totally shackling and diminishing a once healthy Festival, Concert and Market industry Australia wide....= it's too expensive to hold a market or festival these days, just on the insurance cost alone.
Lets take, whatever bs was imposed on Paddy's market to make it so expensive these days = same thing...just like a tick....the controlling and greedy just keep syphoning more and more until they literally PARALYZE the host of their parasitic money transfusion.
Just ask yourself, how many festivals & markets do we have now, compared to 30-40 years ago?....Concerts are so expensive and so strictly controlled......why bother?....whenever they commodify something, it dies = just take a look at the Aussie music industry....is the Voice and those kinds of shows seriously the only way to get noticed these days?...huh?
I think that capitalism is going to eat itself within the next few decades as more and more of us are priced out of making a living, or even accessing essential services like heat, light food, health care etc etc etc. JMO
