This really does seem like a possible way forward to me. I had the advantage of taking a few years off of work, and I was able to pursue a lot of interesting ve

This really does seem like a possible way forward to me. I had the advantage of taking a few years off of work, and I was able to pursue a lot of interesting venues I never would have if I had the continuous stress of rent going on. I gained a much stronger sense of myself as a being outside of just being a "worker". I helped others, built relationships, and moved some research forward. It was a societal net positive for me to NOT work. Imagine the groundswell of what so many disadvantaged people could do if they weren't just working to survive - how many people could actually come online, and turn their attention towards other problems, or live healthier lives. In the neurodivergent community many can't reach the demands of steady work consistently enough to stay employed, yet they're often some of the most competent when actually on. What is the most telling I think is how many zero-sum IQ-superiority-complex eugenicists out there who truly have never faced or considered the levels of adversity people not like them go through every day. This empathy gap and denial of shared humanity is the most dangerous meme of our species.