Where developing countries have vendors on the streets, industrialized nations have vending machines instead, by pure economic and demographic necessity. The existence of an automation tool doesn't imply a human having to work harder somewhere else.

And why do you assume people would sit around doing nothing? I don't think that's a natural thing for most people to do.

How financial and social systems are set up seems to be very much a societal choice, unless it goes against some physical, basic economic or global trade limitation.

Interesting note on the native tribes though!

Surprisingly, i couldn't find any calculator or theoretical approach for estimating this (given room of a certain size, how long does gas need to equilibriate with outside atmospheric composition to within some tolerance, through a hole of certain size)

It would be better if closing questions would cost 1000 reputation. That's one advantage AI has over it - it will at least try to answer your question every time and not just randomly shut you down for its own (wrong) reasons.

Most software today relies on many (imported, third party) libraries, so the security architecture should provide primitives/abstractions to manage rights at that level, which requires programming languages to implement the ability to sandbox (managing the effects of) code. If they did this with lightweight, portable virtual machines like WebAssembly, that could work.

The vast majority of code out there should be limited to pure computation and have no ability to access anything external at all (and otherwise, only what it actually requires) - yet most languages are simply incapable of providing any such guarantees. If the programmer of software cannot get ironclad assurances, they cannot in turn provide them to their users.

I'm not saying that OS-level sandboxing isn't good, just that it doesn't go far enough. And depending on the setup, it may not sufficiently limit the effects of compromised elements, and it provides no "monitoring in the small". It's also not convenient or efficient to have an entire OS instance for every single system component. Compartmented microkernel operating systems like Genode do it better imo.

This has not been proven yet: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/216348/575868

(or more generally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive_sequence)

Depending on the infinite grid filling scheme even these properties may not be sufficient to guarantee that every two dimensional pattern is initially generated because the grid is two-dimensional, but the number property is "one-dimensional". A spiral pattern for example may always make it line up in a way such that certain 2d patterns are never generated.