I clicked because it's a naturally interesting topic because I (like many others) have this dream, and I usually find The Atlantic to be good quality. But this

I clicked because it's a naturally interesting topic because I (like many others) have this dream, and I usually find The Atlantic to be good quality. But this doesn't give any meaningful answer to the question, just some speculation that anyone could make and which doesn't seem to be backed by any scientific evidence (of course, I'm aware there is probably no such evidence, but they could be more straightforward about the answer to the title question being "we have no idea").