I won't say there's not some truth in that, sort of a way to squeeze out microbusiness, and therefore the projects that most non-Chinese foreigners are doing here. It's a lot like back in the USA how they have made every single hustle have a complicated licensing/bureaucratic structure to go through, even things like cutting hair/doing nails. Too many barriers make it impossible for a poor entrepreneur to get their foot in the door, but at least here in Cambodia the barrier is not softened by a stack of paperwork and complicated laws, it's just an in-your-face outrageous upfront cost for everything, and it makes even running a legal busy 30-chair restaurant potentially unprofitable after all annual licenses and taxes are paid. Such a hot mess.
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