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'That's it' is the fascist thought terminating part.

It does not invite further inquiry or scrutiny, it acts like that's the only possible lens to view left wing / right wing through, when at its core, left wing / right wing is a massive oversimplification of literally the entire population's political views into a binary us vs them pattern.

It'd be like dividing the entirety of the animal kingdom into birds and not-birds and saying 'Birds have wings, not-birds don't have wings. That's it.'

No, just pointing out that oversimplifying things and then using a thought terminating phrase to make it sound like you made a conclusive point is what fascists do.

There are lots of ways to think about it. Saying 'think about it this way, that's it, stop thinking about it', is fundamentally a fascist message.

A lot of the nuance is also one of threat assessment, and risk tolerance.

We can prepare for a situation where we're attacked by the US, but given all probabilities is that worth it compared to preparing for a situation where we get attacked by China or Russia, or is that even worth considering vs preparing for a situation where we can ramp up industrial military production as fast as possible and become a resource rich manufacturing powerhouse?

There's no way of knowing which path the world will go down, and preparing for everything simply isn't possible, so every decision is going to be a matter of what risks to take for what potential benefits.

Find someone running a service or a company for that.

Only if there's a lack of competition in that market. For most devices, you're just flat out wrong.

Not for TVs you can't. And other appliances are following suit.

The problem is that you think that would make the 'just' products cheaper. The reality is that the data and advertising subsidize the costs of the existing options and make them cheaper then what 'just' could sell for.

The fact that there are billionaires is the sign that they're not being taxed enough.

Massive infrastructure / R&D projects like a space race is actually one of the more productive ways that billionaires could use their money.

Mo Money Mo Problems doesn't refer to money or wealth in the abstract for the community as a whole, it's about an individual making substantially more money than their local peers.

The situation presented by OP is one of a rising tide, that lifts all ships, where as the dynamic elicited by Biggie Smalls is fundamentally one of wealth inequality. If there was both enough wealth to go around, and wealth sharing mechanisms in place, it's not clear that mo money would be mo problems.