Business and Commerce

313Titles in the inventory

65From problem folders

36From solution folders

Detailed overview of the entire domain — including all subdivisions

Problems / Solutions

The till and the license

A license to braid hair, a gadget glued shut, a subsidy that is a gift to a logo. Banks and credit unions are on the Finance pages. A factory that withholds a part is on the Manufacturing pages.

Problem

Platform monopoly

Amazon about 36 percent of U.S. e-commerce in 2025. The algorithm is the aisle.

Solution

Shop local

About half of a local independent purchase comes back to the town. A chain returns about fourteen cents.

Problem

Planned obsolescence

The product was designed to die. The second purchase was the point.

Solution

Durable goods

Buy what opens. Keep what lasts. Refuse the glued battery.

Problem

Corporate welfare

$4.0 trillion in corporate profits at the end of 2024. The loss is a hearing, a subsidy, a bailout.

Solution

Cooperatives

The people who do the work keep the firm. One member, one vote.

Problem

Business licensing

A license to braid hair that outlasts an EMT course is a moat. About one in four workers now needs a permit to work.

Solution

Start small

One skill, one customer, a form the county already has.

Further writing

The rest of the till

These pages stand on their own. The first four pairs do not hold the whole ledger.

problemDark patternsSignup is one click. Cancel is an epic problemForced-labor goodsThe brand on the shelf that will not name the field problemFranchise trapYou bought a job. They kept the business problemPrivate-equity extractionThey bought the shop with the shop’s own debt problemTax havensThe profit sits on an island. The workers sit in the town problemForced arbitrationThe fine print closed the courthouse problemVendor lock-inThe till will not let the shop leave problemCounterfeitsA fake on the cart is not a bargain solutionHonest checkoutCancel in the same click you used to sign problemRecruitment commerceThe late arrival holds the bag problemShop non-competeThe clause that forbids the next shop solutionKeep an exitOwn the list. Own the books. Leave with both solutionTrace the goodName the field. Or leave the SKU solutionStrike the clauseMail the rejection. Keep the stamp solutionShared stallRent the kitchen. Rent the stall. Do not buy the building first solutionRefuse the franchiseOpen the shop. Do not buy the costume solutionBooks in the townFile where the sale happened solutionRefuse the raidDo not sell the living shop into the loan that buys it solutionA name you can findBuy from a person who still has an address solutionOne salePay once. Leave satisfied. Do not make the year the default

Issue index

Opt-Out / Opt-In

Opt out. Opt in.

Liberation vehicle

Decentralized Open Source Technology

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