This feels like we are forcibly propping up this system instead of letting it evolve naturally.
Crony-capitalism in a nutshell.
Literally, this is the inevitable result of failing to properly regulate the market: it gets regulatory-captured by the big corps to prop themselves up instead. This is what laissez-faire always devolves to, by its inherent nature.
Why would the government want to regulate it? They set themselves up to collect taxes by location. They won’t risk disruption of sales tax in those jurisdictions.
Crony-capitalism in a nutshell.
Literally, this is the inevitable result of failing to properly regulate the market: it gets regulatory-captured by the big corps to prop themselves up instead. This is what laissez-faire always devolves to, by its inherent nature.
Why would the government want to regulate it? They set themselves up to collect taxes by location. They won’t risk disruption of sales tax in those jurisdictions.
It’s turtles all the way down.