Yes, but early adopters would either move up in socioeconomic status, or develop new horrors beyond comprehension

Either way, sign me up!

Yep, I’ll take more effective sleep any day

So modern society and many of its ills.

This is entirely dependent on how people value free time vs money. The average person in the developed world would probably take the free time over more money. People already hate working 40 hours.

I don't know if that's true. Exercise, meditation, adderall, and spaced repetition learning all improve work performance for knowledge workers and those things are far from universally employed.

There's coffee/caffeine which is available at workplaces for employees who want to consume it.

If there are proven benefits without any known adverse effects, we can expect businesses to take the leap and try to make it available as long its legal, practical and cost effective.

> If such a thing were invented it would effectively become mandatory, because anybody not willing to use it would be out-competed for work by people who were.

I believe this dynamic is already happening to ADHD drugs.