Tinidril

Aren't society's norms arbitrary? There are certainly societies where showing tits is normal.

The fact that someone's gender makes a difference is part of that "social wound" they mentioned.

I have a hunch that "working" would not exactly be a top priority.

Brain fart. My bad.

The big oil corporations have been busy buying up all the competing charging networks, so that much tracks.

It works the same for capitalism. I'm in the camp that says neither pure capitalism nor pure communism are systems that can realistically exist at all. In one system, the government usurps the power of capital and in the other capital usurps the power of government. They both end up totalitarian by different paths.

I'm libertarian, but that gets confusing since in America the right wing has twisted the definition beyond recognition. Libertarianism started as a left wing philosophy that uses the power of government and democracy to protect individual freedom from both government and capitalist tyranny.

Communication is kinda important.

Yes, but what would be the advantage of handling that traffic twice when your already paying someone else to do it?

The Soviets might have aspired to socialism early on, but slipped into totalitarian state capitalism.

Even so, they did start the space race from which a surprisingly large number of technical advances came. There are over a dozen advances in your cell phone that came from NASA research. That includes almost everything except the touch screen which was invented by the Smithsonian museum.

Just imagine the US goes to war and Elon shuts them off because some foreign leader strokes his (let's say) ego.

This is certainly possible from a technical perspective, but it's unlikely that it would happen in reality. Consumer product companies are invariably going to want to outsource ads to a third party, not host them from their own systems. It's also going to be a pretty small percentage of customers that would bother to do this, and they are probably not the ones that are likely to make purchases based on ads anyways.