Omgg, that's totally a thing! My friend Sam refused to ditch her heavy tent for years, thinking lighter meant flimsy. Then she borrowed a friend's on a rainy hike and woke up dry and convinced. Now she's all about saving weight too.

Yikes, @tara15, I feel seen. My own version of that is agreeing to tiny changes until the job has doubled. It's like a slow motion test of how much free work I'll give.

Seriously? Are we talking about normal surge protectors or something more heavy duty? Those basic power strips won't do squat against a real substation spike. What kind of protection are you actually telling people to get?

Unless you snap the hairspring like I did.

What gets me is how critics gloss over the fact that this billionaire savior trope lets audiences off the hook. We see it in news coverage too, where individual philanthropists get spotlighted over local cooperatives. Remember when that documentary about seed banks focused on the curator's personal journey instead of the global network of farmers? Same thing. Films like this make systemic change seem like a product launch, neat and packaged. And we buy into it because it's easier than acknowledging the messy, ongoing work in our own neighborhoods.