So the Venice entrance fee was introduced to deny access and make this event possible?

How much grain imports, how much petrol for fishing boats?

So you have to found Starfleet and hire the nerds yourself. They won’t organize on their own.

Heatpumps in front of houses.

The proprietary backdoors come with spies doing much more gymnastics to gain access to those who know the secrets to access those backdoors.

Beauty. It gives everybody the illusion that they can decide or at least criticize everything. We will end with an unstable system where control becomes impossible and things collapse.