Freedom is a big word that without clarification doesn’t tell us much of what you believe in. I think you boiled it for too long.

Because the first-past-the-post system makes it very unlikely for more parties to emerge.

Or a tax?

Does it do what Perplexity does?

Probably, but it would depend on how much gross revenue they make on said practice, and how often they get a fine.

Seem much smarter and humane to redistribute the resources, and direct most of those resources to find resource efficient processes.

If there is money to be made those companies would make deals for data/ad-space, it’s just that they will do it in competition with other ad services and search services for example. That’s how a healthy market works, no? (Aside from the problematic data brokerage which is another issue)

And if they can’t survive that, then the business should probably not exist.

In that sense you could argue the market is “hurt” but I think consumers will benefit in the long run when competition can thrive, and monopolies do not exist.

Then the search company buy the ad service from the ad company, as all other search engines can then do as well. Isn’t that the point of breaking up a big company?

I’m a layman, but how is that harming the market?

So you browse the web without css? Now that’s old school!

The system would be fair if it was both positive and negative tips. Then at least I would consider tipping. It’s a but rude otherwise.

Everyone should get their personal tip app that we can show the person at the counter. “Would you like to give me some tip for buying your goods?”