I think it's weird you're putting the words "profound solution" in my mouth, but you do you.

Indirectly, yes. He's ridiculous, but by engaging with him everyone in the video (the people not returning the carts) looks ridiculous.

I don't watch enough to see if there's people who do return them, but I imagine they look a lot more normal than the alternative.

The thing is that it's absolutely illusory that we as humans evolve beyond that

Sounds like that makes it important for us to focus on it, culturally.

I think you're underestimating what people (including yourself) are willing to put up with when you're actually in that position.

I think all workers deserve a union that gets them all they can get. The problem is that unions are the workers. Organising labour has been a struggle for decades. I just hope hearing about things like this invites others to take note and organise their workplace too.

Your friend sounds like a made-up strawman.

We can do both

This is what I thought about chicken and waffles, till I had chicken and waffles.

I have a Firestick with VLC on it that can browse my PC where I've got all my downloads. Not the most straightforward, but sometimes I want to watch on my PC and this keeps everything central.

Broken clock, etc

While I agree with your distaste, I hope you remain wary. Their incompetence seems to have the outcome of enriching them and their sponsors. Can you still attribute incompetence when they are benefitting?

Regarding dictatorship, the conservatives right now are setting up a lot of things like anti-protest laws that seem toothless because they haven't been used to the fullest extent, but the groundwork is there. It won't take long (likely one election cycle) and I'm sure we'll see them use it in the fullest extent.