Its the forced puns.
blargerer
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Capitalism is imperfect, but business owners actually do at least carry some amount of upfront investment and risk. These things are obviously still true in housing (and food production/distribution and healthcare in the US) but they are captive markets. People need a place to live, need to eat, need medicine. This need allows unreasonable extraction of wealth because people can't choose to just not partake.
This one goes the other way. It was first patented in the 80s before the movie came out. It just wasn't a big thing yet. I assume it's had improved properties since then, but the process already existed.
They are in the position of power to act on their desires. It's probably the same % everywhere.
In response to your edit; their is a difference between having an unpopular opinion, and being and asshole about it. Don't be shocked when people are an asshole back.
Its easy to forget that yeolden times were also capable of satire.
Google continues to push blatant scams with their ads and wonders why people run adblockers.
What. Western media touches toxic masculinity regularly. Barbie and The Last Of US, One of the most successful movies and One of the most successful shows of this past year had major sub-themes about toxic masculinity.
Well There's Your Problem Podcast. They do have a news segment at the beginning of each episode, but you can skip past it if you want to.
Given there were no dissents, its likely above board.
While its true that some First Nation's practiced scalping of defeated enemies for hundreds or thousands of years, it's also true that some English Colonies had a bounty on dead First Nations to encourage genocide, and one way this was confirmed was with a scalp rather than full dead body or head.