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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
by 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 agoThese are the traditional conservative values and beliefs, yes. A lot of us think it’s time to design new values and beliefs.
- tempsy 7y agoIt’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 agoAs 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.