I mean, i thought that was pretty obvious, about the US that is

Google “land taxes in medieval europe”. It will likely come up with an article about england, but once you scroll past the typical google shit you will get a broader set of information on the subject.

What are you talking about? Land taxes were one of, if not the, most important tax group in medieval times.

Yes, they also work in a fashion where they don’t truly step on the toes of walmart, lest they also be crushed.

Wile this is something that can be generally applied to fast food restaurants, this is a problem with basically all industries, many of which exist in a space where their customers are stuck with them. EG a lot of people are stuck with walmart because they are often literally the only place around or the only place around people on the lower half of income can afford.

The reason it is done is because it works. However, shifting responsibility for the individual to reject it is simply a divide and conquer method. It is wholly impractical to try and get billions of people to conform to a behavior, it is, however, possible to force a few thousand companies to curtail the practice.

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