"Never understood why they didn't just mute your own voice in your ear."

It's to let you know that your transmitter is working as far as the output socket. The technical term is 'Sidetone'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You do realize that the entire basis for Wall Street (and capitalism) is that new, high growth wealth creation ideas initially require more funding than they can initially generate from their own operations, right? Ever heard the phrase, "it takes money to make money?" The vast majority of new forms of wealth creation require some form of initial "investment." Larger and longer periods of investment are correlated with higher expectations of growth and wealth creation.

You do realise that Wall Street now only exists to separate suckers from their money...

anyway, here's a link to the real article which OP neglected to use

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

They don't have to care about the conservation of resources, and yet, they do.

nope, it's 'green washing' to make themselves look good and distract from the awful treatment they deal to their workforce...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...

1984: Winston comments to himself, "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug into your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized"(Orwell 3).

from here

https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/engl-246-fall2011/tag/panopticon/

What hurts legal revenue more

rubbish blockbusters? Formulaic re-boots/re-hashes? Copycat me too genre films...

"The original and best linux desktop"

that's a matter of opinion...

It's not rocket science...