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I would love to drift aimlessly while being given money for doing nothing. I recently took 18 months of work to just drift around the country visiting friends
by chowells 10y ago
I would love to drift aimlessly while being given money for doing nothing. I recently took 18 months of work to just drift around the country visiting friends and family. No side projects. No goals. No way to succeed or fail.
It was wonderful. I'd be very happy to be paid to do it. I don't see how anyone can be unhappy like that.
- simonh 10y agoThere are plenty of very wealthy people with enough money to never have to work again at a relatively young age, who continue working well into their 70s. It just depends if you love what you do. My grandfather was a master butcher, he got a part time job at a butcher's shop after he retired purely as something to do because he loved it.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoIs it "because he loved it" or is it because his identity is so tied up in being a butcher, doing useful work, that he can't cope with no longer identifying in that way? For my retired father it's very much the latter, I feel, he works for free doing similar work to what he did before retirement.
- shitgoose 10y agowell, it is better to identify with what you have been doing all your life, than identify with couch, beer and TV.
- chillydawg 10y agoI'd go mad. I fall into the camp of wealthy enough to do nothing, but too driven to do nothing. People are just different and any UBI policy needs to address these differences. TBH, I suspect driven people will generally just sort themselves out anyway. I certainly would.
- brianwawok 10y agoMe too. I think we both would just work. You still make money. We can buy teslas or something fancy.