Kids, with no prompt start lemon-aid stands and neighborhood bike shops (that is what I did, got almost no business).  When I was a bit younger I tried to sell captured grasshoppers.

Why would capitalism mechanize your brain?  You learn quick that you have to offer something of value to get something of value.

It makes you think about what can I do, to provide something someone wants enough to give me what I want.  You learn to per-negotiate in your head.

Trade goes back to the beginning of civilization in Mesopotamia.

Cuneiform one of the earliest written languages was largely driving by trade, inventory, and such.

You show the same bias as the author "but the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals — the source of a series of chuckleheaded antigovernment rulings in recent years" The constitution only allows the federal government authority it has been specifically granted. It's questionable if the FDA (Among other agencies) are constitutional in the first place. Why do you support more government? Why should courts be pro-government? Maybe take some time and try not to control everyone else's life for a bit.

I would tend to agree with you. Even I went with AMD for my last PC build and I have been a loyal Intel customer for decades. It seems to be many of the large tech companies have become too large, bureaucratic, and/or greedy. The resulting shake-up in the market should be a net positive over time.

Very possibly don't die. Covid-19 has about a 99% survival rate. Saying people who catch covid-19 will very possibly die is misinformation.

You must work for the government.

How much different is this then a store advertising or offering coupons for store brand items? Like Walmart pushing mainstay or the like? They sell both store products and others.

I don't know this for a fact, but most games will not let a game running bots/mods be a 'ranked' server therefore it would not contribute to the stats. Some games even require cheats to be on to run bots (TF2 is this way I believe) and that will also makes the server unranked. Also ranked servers in this game are Punk Buster enabled, so this eliminates some, dare I say most of these sorts of issues.