In literally no place in the world are the rules the same for running a multinational or running a lemonade stand. I feel this should be obvious.

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veltas 5 hours ago | parent [-]

In almost every developed country the rules are exactly the same. No hairnet, no licence? Lemonade Stand Ltd can and will be shut down. The main difference is lenience in punishment which tends to tail off and disappear at the lemonade stand scale, and be stricter for large multinationals.

I wish you were right though.

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vouwfietsman 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not sure how you got to this conclusion. The answer is a simple google away: smaller companies face lower taxes, lower standards of documentation on health & safety, don't need work councils, less reporting on workspace/financials, etc etc etc.

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hobs 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Seen house building regulations recently? Most countries will let the home owner do things they'd never let a contractor do without a permit. There's a lot of different laws for home or very small scale selling of various goods, brewing, canning, single person doing business as companies, etc.

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no-name-here 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> home owner

But in this analogy, we aren’t talking about a person doing coding at home only for their own use, are we? Isn’t this about small companies - I.e. whether there should be different applicable laws if you hire a small construction company vs a large one to rewire your kitchen, etc?

	▲	Spivak 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yep, a single person contractor business is no more able to work on a home without a license and permit than a giant corporation.