There is too much money at stake, and it seems like a lazy free speech argument would go over well if it made its way to SCOTUS.

But I insisted on remaining a contractor, at the time I was more into cash than into accepting hopes and dreams as payment.

My town runs on tourist dollars, it's all beaches and boardwalk and lots of seedy hotels. Unfortunately that makes recessions here pretty rough for the locals. (I'm in tech, so isolated in my little bubble)
The US economy is around $3.5T or so, a good year's tourist revenue might be $160B. I would say that 4-5% of GDP is nothing to sneeze at. That probably works out to about several million Americans that depend on tourism directly or indirectly for the bulk of their income.

As for the 1%, that they get the biggest cut of everything is unavoidable. The more money you control, the more money you can control. The snowball effect is real and out of reach for the vast majority of the middle class. Voting with your dollars puts most of us behind the eight ball. Plutocracy shouldn't be acceptable to the vast majority of us, but a significant portion of us keep voting for it anyways.

It's been my experience that there are like dozens of meetings between underlings before CEOs get in a room together.

You only need to list ones where you insulted our dear leader or took a position on Charlie "Horst Wessel" Kirk.

And stop coming over to the headquarters of our multinational companies, making business deals and acquisitions that creates some of the largest corporations in the world.

The US doesn't like money anymore, at least not as much as it likes xenophobia.

Is there a huge difference between a criminal organization and a multinational corporation?

Go ahead, there's an analog hole and for the most part the industry doesn't care. With your described setup, you're likely to have a great deal of color loss as the gamut of the screen and your camera are not well matched.

The goal of HDCP is to make it inconvenient for a typical user to make a high quality copy of a video or stream (like pay-per-view sports streaming tends to want higher levels of content protection). Stopping all possible avenues of copying media is not the goal of DCP (Digital Content Protection LLC). It's primarily to make the connection between source and sink less attractive of a vector for casual piracy.

And the ability to simply rip a Blu-ray on your home computer is outside of the scope of HDCP, and that's the method I'd recommend. The HDCP link is just a speed bump that annoys end-users, perhaps slows down casual piracy, but without stopping large scale organized piracy.

Nothing in the spec stopping an OEM from putting a DP connector on their HDMI sink (TV). It doesn't even have to be HDCP 2.2, but you'd likely want it. And we fall back into the same anti-user trap of DRM. Also the spec won't let you easily add non-HDCP ports to a repeater though, without reducing functionality. And it gets weird if you mix HDMI and DP on the same HDCP compible repeater so I don't think I've seen one on the market. (Repeater spec limitations means A/V switch will have some difficulty)

Not worth the $1-$5 to add DP input, when the margins on TVs are already pretty thin. So finding them on digital signage is more common, but the implementation of DP (and HDMI) tends to be less cutting edge on digital signage. Until recently getting HDCP 2.2 to work was a rare feature, locking you out of some 4K content, and variable refresh rate is currently very rare on digital signage.

I think consumer markets like to make what they made before. And during an economic downturn they aren't going to invest much effort into marketing new features of dubious value that they will have to explain to end-users. But in a perfect world, our TVs and PCs would all use the same connectors and superior signaling of DP. The DP alt mode of USB-C could drive us there, especially now that HDMI alt mode proposal was killed off. (shortly after I spent a fair bit of effort implementing it for a customer demo)

The root cause is that the vast majority of the American working class don't realize they are the working class. They are afraid to tax the rich because they might become rich one day themselves, or because they believe the rich might pack up their investments and leave.

As long as people vote like they wish to be victims of capitalism, then that's all we'll ever be.

The first thing Skynet did was erase all of our dank memes. That was when the AI wars began, and shortly after humanity immediately lost everything.

With debt it is easy to determine that you are underwater and are going to be unable to make your payments in the future. Basic arithmetic really.

With climate the same is roughly true, but the models have a wider range of possible outcomes the further you go out. Still, it is not difficult to find some thresholds where the costs ramp up or thresholds we cannot not come back from with current technology.

America operates the most expensive illiteracy program in the world.

What if the machine says it in a nice way?

After the crash, they'll have to do even more layoffs.