You can socialize it. Nobody is stopping anybody from going in on a condo building where everybody owns and the condo association manages things.

Brendan Fraser was pretty huge at his peak. The bigger reason is more likely all his injuries and family situation that resulted in him taking fewer less demanding roles/more time off and the fact that there wasn't really any long running series for him to be a part of like the MCU at the time. He 100% would have been a title character in the MCU if it were around at the time.

Like his run from 99-03 is about as good as most actors can hope for without scoring a strong oscar candidate.

> Plants, on a large scale and reasonable times, generally can't construct themselves

Compared to manufacturing PV panels they do. Like the scale isn't even comparable. A handful of people can farm a couple thousand acres, where an equivalent solar farm would be on the scale of the largest solar farms in the world. The power output wouldn't be similar, but in terms of effort involved in covering a large area with power generation, the speed you could grow plants is like orders of magnitude in difference. Not to mention that individual plants can provide thousands of seeds which you could then use to propogate thousands more acres.

It's only a waste of space if you can meaningfully use that space. In the article they were using succulents, so in theory you could just plop a handful of these in the desert and wait for them to spread. If you're already installing solar at manufacturing capacity, there's no downside to also having solar that can manufacture itself in situ with no labor also.

This is just a study to see if this effect happened at all, but I think the long term benefit of using plants would be that they can construct themselves. Very little manufacturing involved.