Both of those are entertainment. What work are either of those accomplishing? People need houses and food, and more people are happening. "Acting dead" is people who are getting in the way of providing for people.
Figuring out how to provide more for people using less resources, isn't that a great achievement?
I think reducing this discussion into only two polar opposites is rather juvenile, the struggle we face is on how can we be more efficient, and less damaging to the our general environment while providing for people.
That's a lot more sci-fi to me than sending rockets to Mars to colonise it.
