It's a great metaphor though, suspended animation.

To use the language of relativity, each person's internal "clock" seems to slow down as they get older.

I suppose the equation is different for someone who is perpetually single. That one person makes a big difference.

If you're single and you don't want to be, you kind of have to learn extroversion cargo-cult behavior (being a bit more outgoing, interesting and interested in conversation and people, make first moves socially, etc.). Then you hopefully find a partner that's a bit introverted and you get out of there! I speak entirely subjectively as someone who lived in a city a long time and found it dreadful as an introvert.

Games like EU4 do have multiple views of the map for this reason. There are so many ways you can subdivide and draw borders differently. Language, culture, religion, imperial, etc.

You first need to assess the risk of the current setup, and explain that the new setup will reduce the risk (which you may be able to express in monetary terms).

Coprime meaning "no common factors".

Sounds like you could benefit from some storage. If everyone was able to use their EV for personal energy storage (known as V2H, vehicle-to-house), or even feed into the grid and be paid for it (known as V2G, vehicle-to-grid), that intermittency problem would be greatly mitigated.

Just have a monarchy that only exists to enforce that one rule.