alt Hacker NewsAs the years go buy I'm gradually more and more in favor of restrictions to sell businesses. They tend to benefit two groups: the people running a successful business and the people running the even more successful businesses buying them.
They tend not to benefit the employees, the customers, the competitors and really anyone else besides a small number of people who are already very successful.
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Then nobody creates businesses in your state and everyone there loses. What person in their right mind would invest their time and money into a business they wouldn't be able to sell?
This is quite a stupid idea: you kill all innovative behavior if a creator can't decide to sell his creation.
All voluntary transactions benefits both buyer and seller.
This is as it should be!
Not all businesses are wildly successful. Some are just successful enough to provide a single family with a middle class income. For some people, selling that is their only hope of retirement.
It's not like the seller never has an option to say no to the non-compete.