The way it was done back in the 50's and 60's was by tax. The more you made, the more taxes you paid. People still got rich, just as not as rich as today. And they often chose to do things with their money like give it to their employees rather then the taxman.

No, but they can be manipulated by fear, usually fear of others, currently immigrants, the sexually different and Muslims. The populists are doing well in elections all over the place by manipulating that fear.

The gravity wouldn't matter much, basically to scoop, you'd have an orbit that at the low point entered the atmosphere, which would rob velocity. Anyways it is far in the future before we have the technology and the willingness to wait for the returns from it. You could have like a pipeline where ships would regularly make the dozen odd year trip and once the first one returns, it would be a steady flow.
Whether a short sighted species such as us ever implement it is questionable and as mentioned, a ways into the future

Same thing was done with lead. Along with a healthy put down of the chemical warfare specialists (the only government scientists studying it at the time) who said it was a bad idea with the argument that if it was that bad, they would have used it during the Great War.

Saturn is 3.25%±2.4% helium according to Wiki and could be mined by scoop ship. I've also seen proposals for mining He3 from Saturn which I can't currently find. I did find that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... planned to use balloons for mining He3 from Jupiter. Mining Jupiter is a bit stupid due to the radiation, whereas Saturn could work.

I've seen similar videos, bears have fantastic noses and usually there is a bit of food in the vehicle. They can sure make a mess. They knock over my compost (far from the house) a few times a year, walk through the garden but aren't really a problem as long as you keep aware.
Birds usually get aggressive when nesting. Even the hummingbird does some pretty impressive dive bombing, pulling away at the last moment.
The most irritating are the raccoon's, really tempted to get a 22 and shoot them, they're fucking brazen and the females with kits can be quite aggressive.

Even for the young, pretty soon they're not so young with fucked up bodies and needing drugs (often illegal) to keep being productive. If your lucky, have the skills and such, you might move to a less demanding part of the job, estimator. inspector etc but those are limited.

Supposedly, they weren't plantations, just pine forests where all the trees have a tendency to being the same size when viewed from a distance.
Young forests, including plantations as well as land cleared for logging or cleared by fire supports a lot of wildlife whereas the old growth forests have very few large animals in them unless there is a salmon stream or such.
The bears close to civilization are as scared of people as we are of them and rarely do more then the occasional swat. They can do quite a bit of property damage and they're surprisingly good at opening car doors.
It's only when a long way into the bush that bears are likely to consider eating people. Except polar bears, they always consider people prey.

I live just outside fast growing suburbia. Lots of forest being converted to housing etc. Also a series of bad berry crops in the mountains. There are a lot of bears right in town, deer too. The problem with the bears is the townsfolk aren't bear aware. While direct interactions between bears and people are rare with an occasional swipe at a person, a bear did grab a toddler earlier this year. Parent drove the bear away and cops shot it.
The problem is bears getting habituated to humans, used to eating garbage, dropped fruit etc. A bear can go through a garage door easily, they're also good at opening car doors. Amazing the damage a bear accidentally locked in a car can do. Anyways lots of bears end up shot by conservation officers simply by being bears. It's the shits as generally the bears are more scared of people then we are of them and with a bit of work you can keep them from getting used to eating your garbage.
But yes, bear sightings are now common, even occasionally in the big city. It's kind of neat but really you can't trust them as they're wild animals

Perhaps you've been exposed to too much American education.

WW1 was the great powers thing taken to the extreme and all I remember about Munich 1972 is the Arabs killing Israelis during the Olympics.

Might be easier to see from the outside. As a Canadian, I've always felt the biggest threat to my freedom has been the American government.

Thanks, informative.
Being in a country where voting is a right (for citizens of age), seems weird to deny people the right to vote to change bad laws that they might have been convicted of, like some drug laws.

From the outside looking in, the Florida election count was a shit show and at least here, the courts would have ordered a redo.
I did notice that at the end the loser conceded, which did not happen in the 2020 election. I can't think of any election, at least in the West, where the loser didn't concede once the election was declared over. Sure close elections have recounts, took a couple of months here in 2016, at the end there was a smooth transfer of power.

When was the 2nd time the Nazi's lost? After WWII, de-nazification was so successful that only recently have they re-risen in a meaningful way.