1) The CRT--proper disposal fee (white suits etc. as smashed for compact er, burial)==$$fee most places. 'Saved'.

2) Moving ^^ for meta-Messages (re The Kultur which spawned the current vox populi (?) insoucience-R-Us mob:

a) These are un-'Smart' gadgets.. fine to display yer Old NTSC via tape/CD but NADA-On-Air, so they aren't "useless" just limited Res.
b) They also cannot spy on you re "the Channel" yew get yer fav Agit-prop from, chronicling yer bathroom breaks etc. Thus (for the more subtle-observer: a kinda koan) that: these are Friendly-gadgets, freed of the paranoid-built-in character of the New-HAL-9001 in-Home-spies: about all you can get now (?) they are Bezos-Voice-agglomerating-FREE!

3) The plot IS imaginitive; the above is just a first-pass, a ƒ[how cerebral do ya wannna get re 'motives', Eh bunkie?]
Methinks This Skit may have Legs, may spawn a new class of Dissing the lo-Information--all unawares of Techno, Menace-lovers--vs Us hip, tuned-In/dropped-Out Smart-asses: all despising the Fact
that an illiterate/unTeachable criminal Asshole-in-Chief ... is beloved of SImpletons all over the Planet [but Only-by: such defectives].

..but I'll quit here; I espy the guy with the Shepherd's crook-stick off-stage; need to make space for the Clever-Dog Act coming up..

:-þ

:oTpy