Not quite, he doesn't demean himself by 'buying' anything, he just built a place where other people can buy stuff for a dollar and sell it for two, and Jeff takes a cut.
They did a good job giving all of the characters something to do and wrapping up the overarching supernatural elements. They did about as much saying goodbye to the characters as they could get away with in the time limit, and it's a rare example of an ambiguous ending that didn't leave me feeling frustrated or that the writers had chickened out.
Part of me is simply relieved that the show got an ending at all, let alone a good one. I'm sure that in a few years time I'll want to watch the whole thing again, which I can't say for a lot of shows.
However the power requirements make them impractical for offensive applications and they can't do much damage against concrete and the like, so there's not much risk of harm if they were to become commonplace.
Industrial automation dramatically reduced the cost of making cloth and these costs were passed down to the consumer which benefited everyone. The profits however were now only shared with a much smaller group of people, driving wealth inequality. Cotton mill workers weren't well paid to begin with either.
We're not told much about the Independant Planets, certainly nothing suggests that they themselves did anything wrong (other than secede). You seem to have a problem with their superficial resemblence of the confederacy.
Mal and his crew are thieves and smugglers, not pirates or murderers. The 'Mal is latin for bad' line another commenter mentioned was a red herring in an episode. They aren't evil people intent on subjugation.
The Commonwealth of England could have been a great idea if they'd planned ahead and thought everything out, but considering the kind of people in charge I'm quite glad they didn't...
Auto hide the taskbar, burn your wallpaper instead. Oled burn is really is much less of an issue these days thanks to better panels and pixel shifting tech.
Similar concepts have been developed before, Microsoft and Southampton University were working on glass cubes with 3D laser etchings in the centre around 2015-16
Not quite, he doesn't demean himself by 'buying' anything, he just built a place where other people can buy stuff for a dollar and sell it for two, and Jeff takes a cut.