Well for starters 15 years ago there was no reality TV, which let's face it represents a fair amount of the crap on TV.
I would still object that there are some good stuff on TV, the problem is they don't air when I want to see them. TV in itself is not fit for watching high quality material because you don't control WHEN you see WHAT.

Well I guess everyone is entitled to its own version of what's fair and what's not. Then democracy operates and, luckily for you, for the moment people are blind enough to think it's OK for 1% to own the country and the rest to merely survive (comparatively).
The thing is ultimately in actual democracy the people make the laws, so THEY decide what's fair. It's all about education and raising awareness

That's not what I said. What I said was an ever increasing investment implied ever increasing returns on the said investment.
The returns implies SALES. And you don't sell to your own investors... and even less to the speculators.
Finance was a very nice tool when it represented 1% of the GDP. Now that it is several times greater it's just an unemployement machine.

I meant no shortage of money to be invested, but yes there is little low risk investments right now precisely because the system is unstable because of low consumption and high debt

Well the common thing between the two systems is the wealth is very poorly distributed. Also Politics are corrupted.
Oh and I forgot, both country got a state religion during that period, Stalinism for the USSR and "One Nation under god" for the USA. (TY Mac Carthy....)

Gold standard off the table + unregulated finance. That's the recipe of our doom. One or the other alone wouldn't have had that much effect, but the two combined and suddenly the volumes in finance were multiplied by 1,000 or even 10,000 in 20 years. Meanwhile the actual economy "only" Doubled. QED.
Also look at the rate of imposition of the 0.1% richests, it's quite the lesson, you talk about ending the Nazis, well look at the kind of measures the American government was ready to take facing a challenge at the time.

Also and on an unrelated note, the USSR defeated the Nazis, the american just witnessed. You did got the Japs though. Communism was defeated by itself and corruption, and Slavery was banned in 90% of the civilised world before the American Civil War even began.
So No war doesn't solve a lot. But it settles some differences.

Just please try to think instead of vomiting nonsense for 1 second : Where does the money you got from your Apple stock comes from, and how on earth would it help the economy if everyone bought stocks ? Other than the fact that it would create a buble that would inflate your own stock for a short period of time.

Stock market doesn't create money or value, it swaps money from one pocket to another, and some people are so good at swapping money from others pockets to theirs that they become very rich.
In the old days that was called robbery, but now that it's based on whether you got the info first instead of whether you have a gun or not, it's become legit and morally OK ?
Same principle, different mechanisms.

I think you misread the signs of occupy wall street. It's the 99% vs the 1%. I let you do the maths.
I really seriously doubt someone has ever even though about the bottom 1% in the USA. At least not since 1950.
Reality check the bottom 1% live in slums or on the street in the US, and they beg to feed everyday for hours. I don't know in which dream you live where the bottom 1% are regular workers who make the minimum wage but you should WAKE THE F**K UP ! Minimum wage puts you in the bottom 25%.

You're an idiot.
You get "rich" (like millionaire rich) by getting an unfair part of the wealth generated. If you really believe that your actions in your life make you deserve a hundred million or a billion than I guess you're lost.
There is no such thing as a self made man, there are just smart people who got lucky, and used the hard work of thousands of others who believed in them.
No Microsoft without the hundred thousand employees who fueled its creativity, without the hundreds of thousands of workers and engineers who made one computer in every household a reality, without the great wealth redistribution of the 60s and 70s which made it possible for consumer electronics to appears.
Keep people starved and they won't buy your iPod, and ultimately stockholder or worker you'll be screwed.

Exactly, and demand is created by poor people getting richer, i.e. wealth redistribution.
It's the basis of any functionnal society and the main role of any democratic government to redistribute wealth so that the economic system keeps going, progress is made, and life gets better, for (almost) everyone.
The poorer you are the greater the part of your income you spend (i.e. consume) and vice versa, the richer you are the greater part of your income you invest, which only makes your income greater, but doesn't fuel the economy on the long run.
There is no shortage in investments right now, there is a crisis of debt and purchasing power.

I'm read stupid things in my life but that must be a winner...
Unless you're trolling, which I really hope you are, WTF ?
Rich people buy lot of stocks, because they have a lot of disposable income, poor people don't buy any because they have 0 disposable income => Rich people get richer, poor people get poorer (in comparison)
It's economics 101, and also the only thing that has been proven by experience in the last 150 years, with 0 example of disproof.
Wealth doesn't spread to owners, it agglomerates to owners.

I'm not sure you get real random numbers anyway : when you measure a physical phenomenon that is un predictable in it variabillity like say a temperature measurement or this light thing, your captors use predictable behaviours (obviously) so ultimately there is a bias isn't there ?

"AHAH LULZ THEM MEXICANS SO STUPID ! THEM BUILDING UNDERGROUND WHEN THEM HAVING EARTHQUAKES ! LUUULZ"
Said the idiot american who coincidentally builds 90% of its east coast houses with woods where there are a dozen Hurricanes every year...
You better off inside a bunker-like cellar than at the top of a skyscraper during a Earthquake. I could do the maths but you wouldn't understand it.

1) Change heat dissipation => heat usage for power production.
2) Let Jelly guy be jelly
3) Think american might want to get back to work instead of speculating on the price of rice and the number of african starving to death.
4) (durable) PROFITS !

World's tallest I-got-a-fucking-747-in-da-face-then-crumbled-to-the-ground skyscraper ?
It's not stupid, it's a technological challenge, the kind that used to make the USA move forward before we lost all hope in ourselves and focused on making money speculating on how many africans are going to starve to death this year.