A scorched earth approach to working rather than finances, I'd say. Saving & investing only gives you more opportunities and a bigger safety net. You can always

A scorched earth approach to working rather than finances, I'd say. Saving & investing only gives you more opportunities and a bigger safety net. You can always decide to keep working. I'd say the issue with working towards a meaningful career is that sometimes what you want to do isn't (for good reason or definitely not) properly valued by the economy or supported by society. If I want to be a indie game developer in an essentially dead genre, creating exactly what I want, that's extremely difficult to do. For example, I might have to do Kickstarter or Steam Early Access to raise money and be at the whim of the terrible internet. I'd have to engage in social media as is basically required these days (gross). And so on. If I want to do this while working, it'll most likely take non-linearly longer and quality will go down because I just don't have that much brain juice or focus after work. And I'd have to sacrifice my health & relationships. I'm sure there are other examples. Many that are more noble (volunteering, etc).