A man, in a bucolic small town in Austria, opens a rustic door lined with wood and with a huge poster of some chickens. Behind her, a refrigerator is revealed with different types of eggs, stored in cardboard boxes, and with several signs indicating their price, depending on the type. The man takes a box, closes the refrigerator and deposits the money through a slot next to it, in a wooden drawer.
We see this on a video and it seems like a movie. Steven Spielberg. People comment that if we do something like this in our country, not even the wooden box is left, let alone the appliance or the eggs. Some committed to optimism try to make others believe that, far from the cities, something like this could be done and nothing would happen.
The curious thing is that there are very few who realize that this is impossible to carry out in Spain and not only due to issues of distrust in the honesty and trustworthiness of our neighbors.
Put a refrigerator with eggs in your town square and leave a wooden box with a slot, so they can put you through it. the Health sanction for not complying with the necessary permits for the correct distribution and sale of food. Of course, you will also receive the report from the labor inspector, who will sanction you for not having an opening license or complying with the necessary conditions for a food distribution business. And, already put, surely The Treasury also has something to say about that that there is no way to control how many eggs you sell and how much you have to pay.
So no, dear optimists, it is not possible to do something like this in our country, if you want to sleep peacefully at night.
That story sounds very romantic. two kids who started working in a garage in the United States and went on to create one of the largest companies in the world, but we forget that we are talking about a country where a woman can start cooking cakes and pastries to order, in her home kitchen, and thus earn a more than decent salary and even end up renting a place to expand her business. This is how two of the most important North American companies dedicated to the specialized production of wedding and event cakes began.
Try doing this at home. Of course, don't forget to pay your freelance fee, even if you sell 3 cakes and 4 cookies the first few months. And first of all, find out all the requirements you need. First you will discover that your house is not suitable for this purpose, because it does not meet the standards required for food facilities, so you will have to undertake a rather expensive renovation to adapt to the regulations. Then go to Health Registry of Minor Food Establishments (REM) and provide a document with all the data that proves the activity and what food you are going to provide. Of course, do not forget to comply with the rigorous labeling, where you must clearly and legibly state: nutritional values, name of the food, ingredients, substances that can cause allergies and intolerances, net quantity, best before date or expiration date, special storage conditions, operator data, etc.
You'll see renovation shows on TV where a lady from Wisconsin, with dreadlocks and blue-painted nails, says she needs a big kitchen because she cooks cookies and cakes at home and then sells them.
Maybe when you try to calculate the nutritional value of one of those oatmeal cookies your grandmother made so delicious, you may give up. Next, you'll see renovation shows on TV where a lady from Wisconsin, with dreadlocks and blue-painted nails, says she needs a big kitchen because she cooks cookies and cakes at home that she then sells, or a man from North Carolina, dressed in a cap of the Knicks, He wants to renovate the basement and make an individual entrance because he has set up a daycare center for little ones in his own home.…And, if you remain a stubborn optimist despite everything, you will then remember how well our administrations work when it comes to controlling and demanding money, instead of swearing in Aramaic, which is what we do. that we do not have the gift of optimism.
We do not live in the land of opportunity, let's face it. We live in the country that has broken all historical records in tax collection and yet there is no money for roads, which our Minister of Transport, that we must now talk about imposing more tolls. There is no money for healthcare, since with 850,000 patients on the waiting list for surgery we are also breaking records. There is no money for education, since the results of our students show that we are behind Europe. What is there money for? For you to win it and not for me, there is no reason for that either.
Influencers and officials
If, due to the whims of fate, you decide to start a business and things go well for you, don't even think about leaving the country so as not to leave a large part of your earnings in taxes, because roads, healthcare and education don't pay for themselves. .. Wait a moment, but if it doesn't go for… Yes, it does go for that, yes, denying it is stupid.
So in a country where there are no eggs to even sell eggs in the town square, where the kids see that their father is fried with taxes and that with the bakery, the hardware store or the small family business it does not reach and is suffocated, it is not surprising that the great dream is to be influencer or official. Although if you ask me, in my humble opinion, in Spain there are too many of both and there is a lack of less impressionable and more functional, functional people.
