Things that mostly work with occasional minor problems that are easily diagnosed and fixed are still profitable... they just don't maximise profitability.
Indeed, only systems designed to enrich the already rich have the possibility of existing, of course! Anything else is obviously delusions dreamed up by dirty red commie bastards.
Indeed, there's no one golden bullet that will fix all our problems. It requires multiple vectors, not just for freedom of choice but for redundancy as well.
After browsing the "History of Germany" wikipedia page, I found the German Empire that popped in around 1848, which had the the same colors of the modern German flag.
Oh, it was plenty clear, no worries. I just like taking things too literally as a joke. People totally think it's funny and aren't completely sick of me by now :D
I don't know that it is surprising, just that it is. And should be broadcast at every opportunity, just to catalogue the atrocities if no one is actually going to stop them.
Or it's a day of family and remembrance. The story is not a contemporary one, it was written and set in Victorian times.
While still somewhat mercantile in nature, it wasn't nearly as commercialized as it is now.