They can add skills in response to market demands, adjust fees up or down, scale work tofit their life and income goals and are not reliant on the economies of a single employer for survival.
Distributed DVR allows for any hard drive on the home's network to act as the storage device for your DVR, theoretically eliminating the need to even include an HDD in the set-top-box and giving customers the unadulterated ability toscale their storage capacity tofit their needs.
More importantly, it can help you prepare for any number of equally mega-scale catastrophes coming down the pike if you happen to live somewhere that is not a good fit for a future power plant but someone builds one there anyway.