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I’m not particularly inspired by people who run away from their problems. I’ve met many people while traveling myself who were perpetually traveling and the vas

by tempsy 7y ago

I’m not particularly inspired by people who run away from their problems. I’ve met many people while traveling myself who were perpetually traveling and the vast majority were aimless and uninspired. The worst are the ones that resort to actual begging (yes, it happens) to continuously fund their travel. It just isn’t an enlightened pursuit. If you want to escape life as a corporate drone or whatever running away isn’t the answer.

MaxBarraclough 7y ago
> If you want to escape life as a corporate drone or whatever running away isn’t the answer. 'Escape' and 'running away' are roughly synonymous. What other escapes do you prefer?
- tempsy 7y ago
  The key difference is responsibility. You can leave an unfulfilling job for another form of responsibility in life that is more fulfilling. Endless travel is really just life without responsibility. Having zero responsibility actually does not make most people happy in the long term. It’s an unnatural human state, particularly for grown men, and most will wake up eventually (perhaps once it’s too late) and realize there’s nothing enlightening about a life lived that way.
  - trevyn 7y ago
    These are the traditional conservative values and beliefs, yes. A lot of us think it’s time to design new values and beliefs.
    - tempsy 7y ago
      It’s not conservative so much as innately human. A society made of individuals who feel no shared responsibility to contribute to society is literal anarchy
      - wutbrodo 7y ago
        As you point out, someone begging to fund travel certainly fits the description of non-contributor to society. But many (most?) self-fund their ongoing travel, whether through odd jobs while traveling, savings from a previous stable employment, or "digital nomad" work on the road[1]. In that sense, they're just shifting a portion of their contributions from time period B to time period A, in the same way that spending during retirement works. I don't see how this can be described as "feel[ing] no shared responsibility to contribute to society" any more than someone who spreads their contributions more evenly over time: it's just describing the use of money as a store of value.

by tempsy 7y ago

MaxBarraclough 7y ago

> If you want to escape life as a corporate drone or whatever running away isn’t the answer. 'Escape' and 'running away' are roughly synonymous. What other escapes do you prefer?

tempsy 7y ago
The key difference is responsibility. You can leave an unfulfilling job for another form of responsibility in life that is more fulfilling. Endless travel is really just life without responsibility. Having zero responsibility actually does not make most people happy in the long term. It’s an unnatural human state, particularly for grown men, and most will wake up eventually (perhaps once it’s too late) and realize there’s nothing enlightening about a life lived that way.
- trevyn 7y ago
  These are the traditional conservative values and beliefs, yes. A lot of us think it’s time to design new values and beliefs.
  - tempsy 7y ago
    It’s not conservative so much as innately human. A society made of individuals who feel no shared responsibility to contribute to society is literal anarchy
    - wutbrodo 7y ago
      As you point out, someone begging to fund travel certainly fits the description of non-contributor to society. But many (most?) self-fund their ongoing travel, whether through odd jobs while traveling, savings from a previous stable employment, or "digital nomad" work on the road[1]. In that sense, they're just shifting a portion of their contributions from time period B to time period A, in the same way that spending during retirement works. I don't see how this can be described as "feel[ing] no shared responsibility to contribute to society" any more than someone who spreads their contributions more evenly over time: it's just describing the use of money as a store of value.