That’s the main issue here. This fridge didn’t show ads when people bought it.
So buying things that don’t show ads isn’t enough. You need to only buy things that don’t get updates.

I just wish I could buy a cold box, a hot box, a spinny-arm water box and a spinny-drum water box without computer chips in them at all.

Show him this one instead:

How is Big Ben a landmark?
You can’t even see it from outside.

simple as that, the company hires new people.

From where? The large pool of unemployed skilled air traffic controllers?

The one in Helsinki is separated into 3 floors, 1 of them is for quiet reading.

In Northern Europe, that’s called a library.
The one in Helsinki has board games, media stations for watching films or listening to music, gaming consoles, PCs with design and CAD software, VR rooms, 3D printers and other fabrication machines, conference rooms, study rooms, workshops for fixing things, recording and photo studios, a shared kitchen, a cinema, a playground…

Oh, and books.

After the workers are finished, Mandy from Saxony comes home to see the result of the house renovation.
The entire floor is covered in white bread.
She shouts “What’s this? I wanted a hardwood floor, not a baguette floor!”

(Ich wollte Parkettboden, keinen Baguetteboden)
(Parkett and Baguette are pronounced exactly the same in Saxonian dialect)

And in true German fashion, they privatized it only half-way, combining the disadvantages of a privately run enterprise with the drawbacks of a state-owned company.