A huge wave of immigration from people fleeing the effects of climate change or meaningfully extending average lifetimes could change the calculation of population "collapse."
==Most these individuals sat around hedonically watching TV, smoking weed, or drinking.==
Is this from your personal experience or is there a study that shows this outcome?
== When someone is out of line, you used to be able to rely on the public to correct that behavior. Now if you try, you're the bad guy==
I think people “mind their own business” out of concern for their own safety. The increases in gun ownership, road rage incidents, and mass shootings has certainly impacted my impulse to correct someone in public.
I find it odd how people refuse to admit that Musk has made some errors. He is a human who takes big swings, and has his share of failures to prove it. It's ok to admit that. I'll note, there is no mention of "Thud" [0], another failure of his.
==Acquired by Tesla, who remains a major supplier of residential solar panels.==
Tesla bought Solar City for $2.6 billion in 2016. In 2019, they targeted 1,000 installations a week. In 7 years, Tesla has installed a total of 3,000 solar systems, getting to about 20 installations a week. Add in the fact that he purchased the company from his own cousins and the story looks worse. [1]
==Still a company.==
It is still an existing company, but that doesn't make it a success. Founded 7 years ago, has built one actively used tunnel. They also had to change the entire idea (it's actually just Teslas driving underground).
== It looks like another one of those sincere efforts to prove that people who have different worldviews from the authors are just stupid.==
Your comment reads as the same, just in the opposite direction.
== And people love to vote up those papers because they assume that it scientifically proves their belief system is the correct one and the other guys are just dumb.==
Or maybe they find the results useful/insightful. I don’t think being cynical about other people’s motives really helps us understand human behavior.
Could you share your source please? I am getting conflicting results. The recently released American Time Use Survey 2022 [0] has it closer to 9 hours. Those 9 hours also include "naps and spells of sleeplessness."