You are seriously arguing that because businesses have to give customers what they want that these businesses are oppressed? I'm not going to bite, because there is a very clear difference between doing something because somebody else is forcing you to, and doing something out of choice and free will because it benefits you.

You are trying to pervert words and the concept of freedom in a quite uncanny way - for nobody's benefit. Most people and business owners aren't living within a mental prison where they oblige themselves to min-max everything in life and make all decisions according to a fantasy of rationality. Many of them refuse to accept CC payments, even if it might be in their best interest to.

> "Many of them refuse to accept CC payments"

No they don't. We're not talking about lemonade stands here.

Business owners don't have a choice. They must use CC processors or else lose their business. That's the point.

You're shoehorning a philosophical definition of freewill into a context where it doesn't apply.

Given that consumers and businesses have "freewill" or "freedom" to make any financial decision, then by your logic there are no bounds a company can possibly transgress.

Why do you think we have anti-trust laws, or consumer protection laws, or the FDA, or have litigated against monopolies in the past, or have the host of many other things which protects consumers from being taken advantaged of?