I thought the Viltrumite leverage thing was like turning on a switch. Not necessarily a feat of strength; you just create a counterforce to whatever is acting on you and therefore achieve freedom of movement. But idk comic physics be comic physics.

Central banks already print money at will whenever it suits their purposes and destabilize the economy on a regular basis for it; the only change here is that normal people might actually benefit from Eve’s intervention.

I hate it in the show because it stinks of a sort of status quo brainwashing. Like yeah, it’s not good to build stuff yourself if you don’t know anything about construction, but surely that’s a minor stumbling block, not a reason to never build for free ever again.