Tunnel visioning on slavery is a pretty bad mindset. There are many facets to American society beyond slavery. It's almost impossible to imagine a person today who supports slavery. We've come a long way, and nobody is celebrating slavery.
I think your sense of outrage has leapt far in advance of your knowledge of history. Look up "Divine Right of Kings" sometime. We got rid of it and inspired the world, starting with France in 1789.
Are we perfect? Not even. But we're a pretty nice place to live.
You're the one who brought up Independence Day. And again, your knowledge of history is shallow. I am able to remember when the schools became integrated [0]. I also know why the bathrooms at the rest stops in the South have two entrances ("separate but equal"). And I had a teacher who as a young girl was chased by the Klan.
What we have now is so much improved over what it was like just 40 or 50 years ago that anyone younger just can't appreciate the difference. I advise you to turn off your internet for a few days, go drink a beer & chat with your neighbors and maybe shoot some fireworks off. The internet amplifies biases - don't let it.
[0] The moral panic was .. impressive. The local TV station decided to broadcast that there was a riot at the high school (there wasn't) and all these angry parents showed up to pull their kids out of school. Meanwhile, the kids were like: "Steve, your mom looks really freaked out."
> And again, your knowledge of history is shallow.
> I advise you to turn off your internet for a few days, go drink a beer & chat with your neighbors and maybe shoot some fireworks off. The internet amplifies biases - don't let it.
You may disagree with me, but there's really no need to be patronizing about it. I will conduct my private life as I see fit, thank you.
Having worked with a major eCom platform as well, this is exactly the standard case. Both shipping and tax are complex problems which do not have a simple solution for scraping by a search engine.
Shipping is often highly dependent on the location of the buyer and often involves full estimate calls from each carriers APIs (USPS, FedEx, UPS). The only major data point I would focus on is whether the shipping is free or flat rate.
Tax is even more complicated. Merchants often outsource tax calculations to a third-party service such as Avalara, which calculates unbelievably complex taxing schemes even down to the zip code, as tax laws are becoming increasingly more complex.
Because of these reasons taxes and shipping are not widely useful data points for search engines. That may change in the future, however. I could imagine it becoming another SEO topic to be accounted for, similar to meta tags on product pages.
