dojitza1

Perhaps I should have been more precise (since you ommited a key part of my sentence) in pointing out that any person on their own is probably wrong about a lot of things. Only by taking into consideration a large enough sample of opinions can you begin to formulate your own with sufficient confidence of it being correct. Outsorcing your opinions to an 'expert' is giving up critical thinking.

I'd argue that the "emerging health industrial complex" you mention has been with humans since the dawn of civilization. One wonders how we were able to envision tools that help us move away from our opportunistic instincts.

You shouldn't trust anybody other than yourself and your ability to recognise scientific consensus. This process is not easy and as goes for most things in life, diversification is key. Basing your research on a single article/book/source is bad, and your confidence that you understand/are knowledgeable about a topic should rise as you do more research.

It is a problem of optimising for taste and perceived nutrition instead of nutrition. Humans will buy tasty things that are marketed as nutritious. Companies will try to widen the profit margin by optimising the process in that direction (investing into marketing and taste). A solution that comes to mind is providing tax relief for nutritiously rich non-luxury foods.

I don't see why you can't share some and keep some isolated. Share the file system that stores media and documents, and isolate the platform specific files. Use the same cpu/ram/gpu for both. This way you don't reinvent neither the mobile or the desktop os. To me it seems the only work is in glueing the two systems together and making sure that apps actually run on the desktop version and the underlying hardware (currently in progress for M1 macs)

Some of the ultrabooks aren't far from the specs of a modern flagship smartphone. Also, I believe that you are dismissing what seems to be the predominant smartphone customer - one who uses the device to consume entertainment.

As for the 'there is no money in that' argument I believe that there is plenty of money in various iDOCKS, accessories, doodads and similar.

Because of that, I don't buy this particular theory - the first of the big players that provides a workable and friction free product will surely have it worth their while.

The topic of work productivity is interesting from a behaviour science point of view. One wonders how far we've come in what is effectively manipulating humans to work faster.

I agree. But an average human won't. A perceived cost increase or to put it more generally a perceived life standard decrease incurs a strong emotion in humans. Let earth and our future be be damned, I want more dopamine in my brain as soon as possible. This is the reason why most people live in debt, instead of an obviously optimal alternative of saving up for your purchases. We evolved in an unstable world, where future was uncertain and happiness now was worth a lot more than the possibility of happiness in the future.

I think we humans rely on ourselves doing menial and unrewarding work too much for us to give ourselves the ability to refuse.

Slavery was abolished though, so I am hopeful.

Your emergency fund isn't supposed to accrue interest, it is supposed to be a safety net against these kind of situations.