This nostr:nprofile1qyghwumn8ghj7mtfwdekkete9eshyaqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqqyq875qxcf49x9myqp3grw98ztd7a4au8ke2a3458tcqk22eywgw5kehanv4 we need to help:
https://www.thecaterer.com/news/70-of-hospitality-operators-to-cut-jobs-due-to-tax-rises
Discussion
i contacted the ntia last week and sent the website on to sascha lords agents. no response so far. its an obvious solution, yet all i see every day in the trade press are people pleading with the govt without any solution. people are still of the mindset that the government will save them ... i dont think the industry as a whole has really processed that they wont, and it will only continue to get worse.... i will continue obviously. the reception to the idea is A LOT better than it was a year ago, i just dont think the industry has experienced enough pain yet to accept the need for a solution. sadly.
Interesting,
I had to google everything you said, I found a guy called Sascha Lord, and I found the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, but I figured that wasn't it.
It looks like your investigating political options.
I'd never considered involving politics in any plan, but as you said, I don't think politicians are going to help save them.
I've had zero involvement with politics my entire life, my father advised Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair as a Chairman of the CBI, but the only thing that achieved were public honours and regular drinks invites to No. 10. I don't think my Dad would have considered his political toe dipping to have had an significance to his successes.
As for me, I've had encounters with politicians like Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, but I've always found them self serving and looking at their angle all the time. I'd prefer not to involve politicians in any actions we take, they would just get in the way.
I was thinking more in terms of building a Bitcoin bank (except it wouldn't be called a bank for obvious reasons), which would effectively incorporate a payment company like MUSQET and a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve to build wealth over time for the hospitality businesses.
Perhaps we could provide Fiat + Bitcoin fused loans like this below:
https://video.nostr.build/61ce1d9db983c4578ed3ae964f9a4b7712eb2a589120484dca416c3d344783a9.mp4
its not so much that im trying to involve politicians. thats not the intent at all. its trying to get industry trade press to pick it up. so far ive been ignored and told its too niche an issue. the article you referred to yesterday stemmed initially from some tirade sacha lord was on. the ntia = night time industry association. which i think was set up by sacha lord. i couldnt care less about these associations, its just theyre the ones the trade press covers relentlessly so its worth a shot.
a good friend of mine is a ceo of a 100 venue group - he's very dismissive about the issue and thinks margins are fine.
which reminds me of a quote from this mornings industry trade press: " sector challenges ‘a cycle like any other’: Singaporean restaurateur Ellen Chew has told Propel that London’s Chinatown “has really changed in the last 15 years” and the challenges being experienced by the sector are “a cycle like any other”, which can lead to opportunities."
theres this myopia and expectation that things will always function as they have, which prevents those from within the system seeking a solution outside of it.
i love your bitcoin bank for hospitality....... will have a think