> This whole thing has also shown me how working for a wage paycheck to paycheck even at six figures is basically slavery. I retired at 30 and have done nothin

> This whole thing has also shown me how working for a wage paycheck to paycheck even at six figures is basically slavery. I retired at 30 and have done nothing but travel the world developing open source software since then. I have little to no possessions, and nothing tying me to any geographic area aside from a preference for clean air and such. To your point, in my travels I’ve rarely come across anyone working a job out of anything other than financial necessity. Only a small fraction of people seem to do what they do out of genuine passion. Much more often, artistic, well-natured people are toiling away on menial tasks for money because that’s what it takes for them to survive. > It turns out that capital is everything. The gains from this are disproportionately accruing to billionaires while most people add almost nothing to the total output in exchange for cash and at the cost of much of their waking hours. These bullshit jobs are costing people time they’ll never get back, for dubious societal gains in many cases, while also depleting us of creative energy on an unbelievable scale. Meanwhile, because of the dog-eat-dog nature of our existence, it seems as if there are only two viable paths for most people to achieve “freedom”: either you can withdraw deep into the proverbial jungle, or exploit the underexploited. A staggering amount of what passes for “industry” today is essentially just strip mining our planet of its natural resources, and/or converting it to food in whichever way using as inhumane of a process as is allowed by our current legal systems. The remainder of profitable human activities are by and large facilitating the dominion’s continuity, or quaint distractions from our highly cancerous existence.