we could get Congress

This is what the OP was talking about. YOU, collectively as the voters, are in charge. You've been brainwashed very deliberately to think you're not, but also yay USA democracy freedom bestest fuk ya, and then that learned helplessness has been used to exploit some foundational weaknesses in your system.

and the average citizen

You have also been deliberately made dumber by being convinced education is bad and should be expensive, and wedged and distracted by irrelevant garbage.

"The government you elect is the government you deserve." By none other than your own Thomas Jefferson.

Both ways!

Sure they want updated engines. That dosen't mean that, lacking new engines, they don't want the planes they have. Not having any A380s at all would be a pretty big problem for most of the airlines that fly it.

The A350 1000, or the 777x, have a little more than half the capacity of an A380. That's twice as many flights.

The uses for bitcoin seem to mostly decrease as it becomes more popular. It's great for sending money around without paying taxes or getting the attention that taking a briefcase full of bills through the airport gets... until bitcoin gets popular enough that governments recognize it as a briefcase full of cash.

In hindsight, it's fairly obvious. When you get tired of arguing with your employees what do you do? Hire someone else to do it for you. Then when you get tired of arguing with them, you hire another layer to do it for you. Et cetera.

That's the magic of the loop. The agent tells you it's doing everything perfectly.

Ah, given the social skills and anger issues you must be a console gamer. See, when your computer isn't in a fancy box with "Sony" written on it you can put any downloaded file you like on any medium you wish. You can lend it to a friend, once you've downloaded it you don't need any "storefronts" at all, etc.

Your inability to copy files off your computer sounds like it's a problem all right, but I'm not sure that problem is Rockstar.

Hey, come on. When cracks were found in the MD-11 engine mount on several aircraft, Boeing looked into it, concluded a failure "would not result in a safety of flight condition," so there's no need for replacement but you might want to eyeball it every five years or so. The FAA was cool with it and everything was totally fine. Totally fine.

Okay, one engine fell off on one aircraft, but that was actually due to something else and it definitely wouldn't ever happen again.

The A380 is already out of production. The airlines that fly A380s really want more though. "Not economical" depends very much on what types of routes you fly and how much landing and takeoff slots cost at the airports you service.

Might be the other way around. Notion was neat variation on the note taker app. Add a floating chatbot button you can't get rid of, some nagging to try their meeting transcription, collaboration features, connect your calendar, an e-mail client apparently, hey, why not integrate your crypto wallet and a social network and a payment platform and.... Of course to support all that you have to hire more developers, who need to be paid, so more ads or higher subscription fees.

Yeah right. Everybody today writes wonderful programs right off the top of their heads, virtually no improvement possible.

Maybe the American and Russian troll farms are willing to pay higher rates for ads.

There's the problem. It's expensive to do properly, and only moderately effective. Nobody who runs a cafe or mall is going to pay for it. Offices would be better served by giving employees time off when they're sick. If they don't want to do that they're definitely not going to pay for semi-effective gizmos.

We voted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Ehh, sort of. Better than usual in the last one.

What would you have us do?

Try voting for someone that is not recommended to you by one of two corporations. I'd suggest voting for whoever says they'll strictly enforce the $3500 / year maximum individual and zero corporate election contribution limits.

In communist societies communes are the companies and there is no government. Communes are like companies except the people who work in them own them. Thus "workers own the means of production."

China isn't communist. It's not even the fake communist that you get when revolutionaries establish a "transitional government," or the economically communist that China sort of was until Mao died. It is authoritarian, which is where the government has a lot of power to tell everyone what to do.

The GP didn't ignore your original comment, they corrected it.