You shouldn’t care at all about the media industry as an industry. You shouldn’t care about the owners of Disney or Larry Ellison. So feel free to pirate everything and especially stuff from those artists who are already billionaires. It’s not like Taylor Swift needs more money or that John Lennon will be able to create new songs because you pay him

It’s the same in Germany. Support for our right wing party is dropping as education rises. So if you are more educated you’re less likely to vote for them.

Not sure what you mean with automations, but there is a nice balance to be had between avoiding stuff that needs maintenance and getting stuff that is doing the maintenance of other stuff for you. So don’t buy that aquarium if you do not want to do the maintenance and upkeep on that.

Other things: Dishwasher. Robot vacuum. They are awesome as fuck