This is a confusing attitude - you felt OK with spending that time listening to something, so you "disagree with these conclusions"? The conclusion isn't that s

This is a confusing attitude - you felt OK with spending that time listening to something, so you "disagree with these conclusions"? The conclusion isn't that some people can't be OK with a long commute. You sound like you're trying to be helpful, but you also sound accusative toward people who are miserable commuting (regardless of what they are listening to while doing it). Obviously we can't solve the misery of the majority of those people by saying "you have the wrong attitude". "Making lemonade out of lemons" is simply inapplicable in this context. If a person can give up that time to commute, then that same person, without the commute, could give up that time to listen to something if they actually wanted to. The listening is merely a mitigation, which will help some people a lot, some people a little, and some people not at all - it's not some kind of opportunity.