IME has been sketchy as fuck since before Intel gained market dominance, much less lost it. I’m surprised it took any semi mainstream media in any country this long to report on it, there have been defcon talks about the massive black hole that is local and ime instructions for Intel chips for at least a decade now.
This world is what ever we make it, and literally everything we need to live is free, from water to food to shelter. The earth literally just does all that.