So what's the equation you ask?
The Cost of Living.
Everything that goes into a human life time.
And trying to quantify that in a balanced financial system that can be scaled from person to person all the way up to from planet to planet.
oh and square footage for living space v.s. public space.
Arguing that "Store Fronts" are public spaces while store interiors private spaces.
I.E. If a business offers a service beyond the store front like food delivery, repair services, essentially anything tied to or supporting a trade job should be public space and should be regulated and funded as such.
Private businesses and services. Something like an accountant, a physician, Caregivers, and Barbers.
would be regulated as private spaces. Sure a lot of people would argue exceptions for their business to be considered one or another.
But the question asks.
Is the business responsible for handling personal information or public information?
So like, that would mean a grocery store wouldn't be able to offer financial services or financial account management services. But their POS system would be point to point encryption with the one and only purpose being to verify the existence and transfer of funds between customer and business.
Essentially offering every American citizen and asylum seeker the same level of financial security and privacy as crypto bros and day traders.
Where as a private business...
Instead of an encrypted POS systems they would receive physical data storage services for medical and financial information.
Basically the equivalent of electronic fort Knox.
Where data has to be moved physically.
Like, you walk in, check in, they hand you your ssd. When you meet with a physician you hand them the ssd, they plug it into a terminal with no other external data ports and examines your files and updates them with what ever diagnostic data was acquired during the visit.
After the visit the person would be given a physical file noting any changes to their ssd and any physicians instructions before given the option to shred or file the document.
In which case the office shreds the physical file on request, but if the person chooses to keep it then they assume soul responsibility for what happens to it after....
but yeah.
Math is just numbers right?
Yep.
And Money is the reason for everything.
Nope.
What do a watch, a ruler, and a dollar all have in common?
They all measure a life span.