Perfect analysis!
The US doesn't make anything. The economy is based on rentier finance.

Canada is dropping tariffs on Chinese cars.

China dominates because they focus on economic development, not wasting money on military conflict.

China is well on the way to economic dominance from investing in education, technology, and AI.
This contrasts with the Western approach which focuses on military dominance.
China is winning.

The US spends more than twice the amount on health care as any other country yet leaves millions without access to care and the rest of the population with the worst health indicators of the developed world.
Where does that money go? Profits for the medical industry. Insurance companies, pharma, hospitals, etc.

Some airlines actually do that.
Airlines in the South Pacific who run small planes charge large customers by weight. (They have an excess number of large customers.)

Just looking through my junk boxes I have about 40 charger blocks of various sizes and power outputs... including about 5 newer ones with USB-C higher power output.
I don't think I have ever had a power block fail.
Happy that they aren't including more potential electronic waste with every purchase.
Of course, knowing Apple, they won't reduce the price.

Too far away?
I don't think you know how these satellites work.
They have communication links. You don't have to send a technician up to the satellite to upgrade the software ;)

"They collected phone calls and text messages from more than 2,700 T-Mobile users in just nine hours of recording.
The researchers also obtained data from airline passengers using in-flight Wi-Fi, communications from electric utilities and offshore oil and gas platforms, and US and Mexican military communications that revealed personnel locations and equipment details. The exposed data resulted from telecommunications companies using satellites to relay signals from remote cell towers to their core networks."

I think that "AI programming" vibe will only make this worse.

How about Apple TV Double Plus Good ?
They still spoon-feed weekly episodes so we don't hurt ourselves watching more than one episode at a time.

Jem Bendel is a person who has explored how we can live with our new reality of a broken climate (as sell as societal breakdown).
He has a book "Breaking Together" which explores options for living with climate change.

"In the introduction, Professor Jem Bendell frames the book’s central thesis: that societal collapse is no longer a distant possibility but a lived reality for many. He begins by reflecting on his earlier “Deep Adaptation” paper, which argued for acknowledging the inevitability of climate-driven societal breakdown. The widespread reaction revealed deep denial and resistance within academia, media, and politics. In this book, Bendell expands his scope to explore not only climate but the converging crises of economy, energy, biosphere, food, and culture. He stresses that collapse is not merely an external threat but something we are already experiencing, to lesser or greater degrees, through deteriorating health, economic instability, political strife, and ecological disruption. "

https://jembendell.com/2025/10...

Some might survive but it's hard to see all of these companies doing well enough to justify their investments. They are all selling essentially the same thing so they have to compete and revenues will suffer.