And how many American Indians were forcefully sterilized? Starting point, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which doesn't get too much into the forced sterilization of blacks and the poor. But I guess in the land of the free, it's OK, especially as the Supreme Court said so in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

Oliver Wendell Holmes' decision stated, "it is better for all the world if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sanctions compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes."

While your point is correct, the problem is when you get a government who really believes private is always better, sabotages the public utility to show how bad public ownership is and sells it to their friends cheap. It happened here where the government balanced their books by getting the electric utility to borrow massively and pay huge dividends to the government. Luckily there was a change in government before the sell part. Took years to fix the issues.
Then there is the example of the UK when Thatcher ruled. Most all public stuff sold off and the country has been fucked since. They did briefly lower the taxes though.
Well run government owned utilities are always more efficient then private ones, which put profit first, but it has to be well run. In America there is one party who's mission is to prove government is bad at running things and they'll make sure of it, and they regularly get voted in.

That is a simplification. We had some very healthy people here get very sick from Covid around here, sick enough they barely survived with a lot of medical help. It was theorized that genetics had a large influence with sickly people with the right genes easily defeating Covid and healthy people without those genes having a hell of a time.
It's an advantage of having a very diverse population, good odds of some having some degree of natural immunity.

I think the fibre is more stretchable then the power lines. I know the copper phone line was more stretchable as I remember power outages where down the road there was a tree on the lines, power cables broken, phone line stretched to the ground but still working. Now when the power goes out, the internet (fibre) keeps working and I know they run on the poles.
Or perhaps the power lines are designed to break when a tree lands on them unlike the other cables.

What happened with the Spanish socialist experiment was the Stalinist's showed up and fucked it all up. Orwell wrote some interesting stuff on the whole thing and how quickly it went from socialist paradise to authoritarian hell. Similar seems to have happened with all Socialist revolutions, at that revolutions in general seem to end up with the authoritarians in control.

It's funny in a depressing way. Trump's latest tariffs are based on involuntary labour, which to me means that if we import American goods, they might be made by involuntary prison labour, so we have to stop importing stuff from America to avoid the tariffs.
The stuff I've seen made by American prison labour has been crap, even worse then the minimum wage workers produce.

Actually, if you zoom in, it has often been periods of chronic unemployment before the work came back, along with removing people from the labour market.
1st industrial revolution, 70 years, 3 generations of chronic unemployment. Saving grace, massive emigration to the new world where land was plentiful.
2nd industrial revolution, children taken out of the work force and eventually put in school, a trend that continues. The stay at home wife/homemaker. shorter work week.
Today, what percentage of the population works? The young spending years getting educated, the old and disabled pensioned off. And so on.

It doesn't even have to be collusion when there are only 3 or 4 big players. One raises its prices, the others see it and think, good idea, and raise their prices.

I think it was mostly WFWG, Win3.11 where it became more of an operating system. Win 3.1 ran fine in enhanced mode on OS/2 instead of DOS. There was one or 2 binaries replaced when you installed OS/2 redbox to replace/complement DOS, mostly graphics related so that Win3.x Windows could be displayed on the OS/2 desktop. DOS and OS/2 could co-exist on the drive and that Windows install would run on either DOS or OS/2, standard or enhanced mode.
Ran better too, especially if you used the HPFS file system which was a big improvement on FAT and the fact that you could have multiple Windows sessions running at once. Turned out that Win3.x was pretty stable if you only ran one program on an instance.

Not just developers, users who were beta testing. Beta programs were pretty open.

While your point is valid, there were differences in some things such as how IBM handled their anti-trust case compared to MS. IBM had a consent agreement with the DOJ and mostly followed it with one result the rise of MS, which at least partially due to IBM's consent agreement got a very good deal on DOS, along with a more open philosophy from IBM. Compare to MS who immediately tried to work around their anti-trust agreement and got political resulting in Bush basically cancelling their anti-trust case.
A good example was the competing operating systems on the PC in the mid 90's.
You had OS/2 (v2+) which during install, if another OS was on the system, installed a Boot manager, called BootManager, which upon boot allowed you to multi-boot, DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux etc. Meanwhile with MS, it monopolized your HD. Install Win9x on your multi-booting HD and at the end of the install, it would inform you that it had wiped your OS/2 install. No warning, no mention of how a minute or 2 with fdisk could return your multi-boot environment. Imagine, you test a new OS and after installing it, you are informed all your stuff is permanently gone, even though it actually was still there.
Another thing with installing Win9x was that if you had OS/2 installed, it didn't worry about if you had a serial number to enter during install. This continued their attitude that a pirated version of Windows was better then a paid for competitors OS.
OS/2 also mostly followed standards rather then creating their own like MS.

Aren't your Tesla's built in China? Probably better quality then the made in America ones.

A time of shrinking labour participation. Child labour laws removing children from the labour force and eventually putting them in school. Higher wages along with shorter work weeks starting the move to one income families instead of every member working. Eventually a world war to employ more along with removing millions of young men out of the labour force through death.

Think of books. You buy a physical book and you think you own it even though strictly speaking you bought a license. I feel the same about my '90's games as my '90's books, I bought it, I can sell it, give it away or do anything besides distribute copies of it, along with a couple of other things like public performances

Think of a book, comes with a license that allows you to do all kinds of things with it, excepting making copies and distributing them. Actually I have at least one book that says the license is only good as long as you have the book cover.
Even though the book is actually licensed, you basically own it. And if you own it long enough (actually your family etc), eventually the license expires and you can do anything you want with that book including copying it.
Now a days, some books, just like software, are only in electronic format and the license can be revoked even though you paid for it just like a physical book