I came here to say something like this, it makes me sad too, but I do have commentary on it. Imagine buying beer or wine from your local dude who brews for fun

I came here to say something like this, it makes me sad too, but I do have commentary on it. Imagine buying beer or wine from your local dude who brews for fun, like at a farmers market. There's a sense of community in things like that. But you can't, that guy would have to spend six figures on commercial licensing and FDA inspections and code compliance and whatever else. We can't just buy things from people anymore, we have to be consumers and can only buy from businesses, there has to be a clear cut distinction, all our relationships must be in compliance. Governments are regulating and taxing our communities out of existence and leaving us with a sterile system of impersonal distribution in which they are the middleman so that they can milk every cent that is "rightfully" theirs out of every single interaction everyone has.