IMHO process commit is a more than adequate indicator of current user space RAM usage.
Each profile has 5 extensions loaded (uBlock origin being primary).
Total memory usage 11.9 GB for the entire system. Chrome is using about 4GB with 75+ tabs open.
You are either on a site with bad client side scripting, or you have an extension burning through RAM.
Chrome is a bit more of a memory hog than other browsers, but not that much. RAM is cheap, stack it up and use it. I will keep my CPU cycles, thanks - I need them (mainly for the slow ass PSA that I have loaded in Vivaldi).
Those workers are indeed left with more free time, but no way to effectively use it in a society that has left the value of their labor behind and discarded the laborers with it.
This is a major societal issue. You can blather about new jobs and unimagined industries being created, but even if they are at the same rate (they are not), that leaves the labor pool to fend for itself. The capital holders are not going to pay for retraining. The government is loathe to do so.
This leaves little options except the 'gig' economy, where you are overworked with little protection, until you are sick, or your car breaks down, and you have nothing left.
As tech workers who implement automation, it is imperative on us to push society for a solution for this, be it a UBE, government budget for displaced workers/trades, etc.
We are aiding in the upward flow of wealth and it will leave many of our friends, families, neighbors, and even ourselves behind at one point if we do not stop it.
With the current trend towards anti-intellectualism we have now, this will only get worse, not better.
Read some of the info here about 'lie detection'. https://antipolygraph.org/
I have some intimate experience with polygraphs. As a convicted sex offender, I have had to submit to them as part of a treatment regimen. I have passed polygraphs I lied on, and failed them while telling the truth. The judgement lies in the examiners subjective whims, not anything objective.
I really dread what is going to happen with a half baked app from Google that will probably fail and be dropped.
But, making it an earned right buts the permission of people to vote in the hands of the elected. Once you block people from voting based on some arbitrary knowledge, you can use that vague test to effectively block people by gender, race, etc. Not a slope I want to slide down. We already blocked Native Americans, African Americans, women, and still mostly block felons and others. Let's not make it worse please. Instead lets work to actually create an informed electorate.
Friction is a drag.