Comment by squarefoot

Everyone wants an e-bike that weighs like a feather while being able to travel for long trips between recharges. This is how our corrupt advertising system manufactured people desires: everything is possible and there are no technical limitations, so as a result everyone thinks they can buy everything, and manufacturers are forced to cram all power to the last milliwatt to be able to put something on their ads. A more educated advertising system would help people to become less demanding, more critical and a lot more selective wrt what to buy and especially what not to. Problem is that educated people usually spend less, so I'm not sure there are many incentives in that direction.