No it isn't.

It needs 1/10 the solar energy then previous methods.
That means mirror don't have to be as precise, uses less area, cheaper, can make smaller plants.
I still don't know what data centers aren't put in sunny area and power from Industrial Solar Thermal.

The most efficient way to do that is to reduce CO2 in the air.

Did you know that's becasue of increased CO2?

Let us know when you have a virus that obeys border laws.

If it emerges again t won't be exactly the same. Best to be prepared ahead of time instead of spending months, or years after it emerges trying to figure it out.
. Meaning we will \have learned more techniques to help us respond to different vectors, not that it will reemerge exactly like something we have in a lab.
plus, there is still a lot to learn fro it that applies to may viruses.

Potential defenses. It would be a stupid, horrible, and backfire in a lot of ways for a government to use it as a weapon. SOmething government have known since WWI
Globally based theologically motivate nut jobs on the other hand, they won't care cause..'god'.

Mostly because they are a newer profession and a trickier one to quantify.

Time and motion studies, along with 'scientific management' were already a serious hit in terrifyingly invasive performance enhancement for blue collar labor around the turn of the 20th century(Taylor and the Gilbreths being the poster children, with many successors). The workers who haven't been replaced by robots yet are likely still subject to a descendant of it. Though less amenable to automation, service sector jobs are also rationalized more or less as tightly as available technique allows.

Software development is still a work in progress because it only started existing comparatively recently and because it takes more technology to dismiss any "Oh, what we do here is unquantifiable skilled craftsmanship" positions.

It is selection bias, in that you apparently haven't heard of it happening to basically everyone it can reach; but the world does actually hate you, and is actively working on making software development absolutely as soul crushing as seems economically desirable.

Well, we wold need the virus for experimentation.
Of course if we can do it at leisure, then so can everyone else.

Also Israel. Another successful socialist state in the European/American/Canadian/Australian model.

Or how the citizens of Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden actually do pay their taxes without demur.

Don't just rely on the anecdotes that confirm your preconceptions.

Goose bumps every time.

Warp Speed, Mr. Scott.

I don't think you know what peasant means.

The problem is a lot of these contractor don't run their company(themselves) like a company.

They should be tucking money away, knowing there will be slow periods.
When the slow period arrive, take it easy for a couple of months.
IT's contracting, no different the being a general contractor o you own construciton company.