The successful small business owners I know do exactly this. They just focus on their business and ignore the rent-seekers. As the business gets bigger doing that gets much harder, but that's why we have Senators and Representatives for sale at discount prices. :)
“The successful small business owners I know do exactly this.”
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Indeed.
On my small commercial building and home, I do ALL of my own maintenance, improvements and repairs.
The alternative is to have a horde of make-work inspector/ bureucrats sniffing over my building and exponentially increasing the cost and time of any given project.
The only thing I have to put up with is a fat-assed, grossly underworked, heavily pensioned fire captain strolling through by building every year telling me I need to check the batteries in my EXIT signs and smoke detectors.
Gee thanks for the “professional” guidance.