Want to take a gander at this? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...

A lot of the stuff IBM works on ends up in their mainframes so as a consumer you'll likely never hear about it. https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/r...

How on earth did you survive watching the 1970s Wonder Woman?

*Citation needed

True but what about the data being collected?

You mention the Rambo ripoff movies which is good point because the original First Blood https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0... is pretty left wing. A Vietnam vet with long hair and serious PTSD is just trying to live his life and pass through the town. But the small town (and minded) police don't like him and all hell breaks loose. It's really a tragic story.

Sheriff Lobo? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Incorporated AC when Paris was built?

How do you install air conditioning in a 400 year old building?

I suspect Kim Jong Un got better grades in college than our dear leader

Next do Ford, GM, and Tesla.

Yeah and I didn't really like that either. Michael Moore did a great documentary about how the first bill was defeated and then the bankers had "talks" with congress and rammed it through. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That was before they started walking around in literal fucking clown shoes because daddy bought them. https://www.theguardian.com/co...

And you'll have to jailbreak the bootloader or throw it away if you ever need an OS update.

You're forgetting one thing. Even accounting for this fuckup, in the end was it still cheaper than simply paying people? If the answer is yes then this behavior will continue.