Cracking the vending machine would be one way to make it moan

Discs is probably not the future but we could go back to cartridges with solid-state storage and get more than enough for a large game. It doesn’t have to be particularly compact so I assume companies could save money on not opting for the most state of the art densest drives

It would break the economy if people stopped buying shit they didn’t need. I really wish these numbers didn’t correlate to whether or not people had food or housing or healthcare, otherwise that sounds like a wonderful way to slow the erosion of the natural world at the hands of overconsumption

They used to do this and it turned out exactly how you describe. I would probably also add it’d incentivize politicians to dismantle educational institutions serving certain demographics