That is not the argument you think it is. That reflects more on bad pilots or poor maintaince. The 737-800’s crashes are overwhelmingly pilot error or maint failures. I see one that might be because of manufacturing issues.

I played CIV 3 as a kid and it sets you up for one of the most important parts of history without really thinking about it. Geography. Why are river cities OP in CIV, its becuase they're OP in real life. What does technology look like, how are some of these things related. Youre kid wont say these things aloud but the game does a really good job at giving a framework to think about history from a wholistic point of view.

Its a game that also shows a bunch of different cultures that arent super common in the western narrative. They also tend to have some interesting bios that are neat to read.

I was about 7-8 when I started playing. Just really fun engaging games that dont force history on you but deffinitly give a softer approach to many different parts of history.

Also Giant Death Robots are cool.

Japan specifically had a narrower gauge built originally to cope with the mountainous terrain. You trade capacity for agility. At leas that’s the justification the British used when they designed it for them.

Yeah but the cost of living has gone up relative to housing as well. So yes 7.25 is insanely high.