the cost of compliance with the ridiculous amounts of fees and forced spending on transport for a 50cc motorcycle, and the fact that they limit electric scooters to 200W (which is almost slower than walking) and my need to run around the suburbs delivering my advertising was a very big factor in what led me to leave australia
i was able to get a pretty good hit rate, about 1% of my ads led to at least one hour of work, but the hill i had to climb to get to the point where i could absorb the cost of having transport made it impossible for me to ever expand my clientele enough to make a living out of being a call-out computer tech support guy, even in fancy suburbs around Wynnum and Bayside areas
there was no bitcoin back then and even still i had just discovered it due to Silk Road and simply there was no way for me to accumulate enough money on a welfare payment with small supplement of my tech support work... australian government does everything it can to stop economic mobility, to keep the industry lobbies showering the pollies with money
and yeah, maybe 200W electric would have been bearable out on the bayside where i was but absolutely impossible on the inner suburbs of brisbane with all the hills
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