Yes, it is just a casino chip. The US dollar has been backed by jack shit for a long time.

No, that’s Google keeping the content of the pages they scraped at the time they scraped them.

That’s literally the opposite of how it’s supposed to be, new tech is expensive and only early adopters can buy in, then when the EA’s money comes in, it is spent to improve and make the tech cheaper, which allows it to be adopted by the masses. With streaming, all of the fat cats decided to start it cheap to get everyone hooked and moved over, then jacked up the prices because the shareholders aren’t satisfied with their draconic gold hoards.

Sounds like you want a tiling window manager, I like i3-gaps.