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Are movie theaters dead, or is the big screen irreplaceable?

During COVID, drive-ins came roaring back, and that should tell the skeptics something important. People were so starved for shared viewing that they sat in parking lots, in their cars, listening on FM radio, just to watch something at the same time as other humans. The demand for communal watching didn't die during the pandemic. It intensified. The multiplex has problems, real ones, but the underlying hunger is provably alive. The industry's job is to serve that hunger better, not to declare it extinct because the current buildings are flawed.

Should billionaires be allowed to exist?

Oxfam's 2025 Davos report found that billionaire wealth grew three times faster in 2024 than the year before, and at this rate the world will see its first TRILLIONAIRES within a decade ([Oxfam](https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/billionaires-wealth-grew-three-times-faster-2024-five-trillionaires-expected)). This stopped being a reward for hard work a while ago. It's compound interest on existing capital, accelerating while wages crawl. And they barely pay for the civilization that makes it possible. ProPublica's analysis of leaked IRS records showed the 25 richest Americans paid a true tax rate of about 3.4% between 2014 and 2018, while ordinary workers paid multiples of that ([ProPublica](https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax)). They use the roads, the courts, the educated workforce, the stable currency, and then structure their income so the bill never comes. Nobody is saying success should be illegal. But a system where wealth compounds tax-free at the top while everyone else pays full freight isn't a meritocracy.

The 'classroom cannot fix it' argument could justify never teaching anything hard. Schools teach plenty of things the cafeteria undermines. That is the job.

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The sitter point is the whole ballgame for me. I am not leaving my phone unreachable for three hours with a six-month-old at home. Phone-free screenings as an option, sure. As the default, you have lost my ticket money.

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