don't spend your time cooking food, pay for others to prepare it for you.

don't spend your time maintainig a house, rent and let someone else do the maintenance.

just lease a car and get a new one automatically every 3 years.

honestly, everyone has their own setpoint for things. and there are degrees of solutions for every point you make.

I think most people would benefit from being just a little bit self-sovereign.

Personally, "majority of people" could use one low power fanless server with 1tb for the few things most people need continuously online.

And separately a server you turn on occasionally with lots of storage, like maybe

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TV1XPDD

I'm reminded of jwz's backups info www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html

"RAID is a goddamn waste of your time and money"