Here’s the thing though. What Tom is doing (if we forget distractions like paying salary to employees, paying rent for location etc) is entering the market with a slightly better service, and outcompeting the incumbent. Let’s say we ban this activity! Now nobody’s allowed to enter a market with a slightly better service and outcompete the incumbent. Enact this ban, and wait a few years.
I think you just invented patents from first principles.
I think you just invented patents from first principles.