In that case we also wouldn't be posting on HN. More broadly it seems not terribly useful to concern ourselves with how we would best live in some idealized al

In that case we also wouldn't be posting on HN. More broadly it seems not terribly useful to concern ourselves with how we would best live in some idealized alternate universe, instead of how we do best live in this one, where among other things we stuff singing wads of plastic in our ears all day.