Imagine all your basic needs are covered: housing, food, healthcare, and so on. You don’t need to work for a living anymore. What would you do with your time?
I know this might sound like a bit of a dreamy question, but it’s been on my mind lately, especially as I see so many people working tirelessly day and night. Perhaps it’s time for us to slow down and reflect on what truly matters. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this!
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I don’t work I quit work at 35 and am now 58. It takes time Toni shacke from the societal indoctrination Misha bleeding work as worthy. I live off a small investment income from investments made decades past (I was buying shares from age 19 and have always been frugal growing up poor, I also own my own modest cottage in a small rural village) Those investments have only grown through no particular perspicacity of mine.
Eventually you can come to understand that freedom is and do what you want. My only regret ? Not quitting earlier, those years were wasted and I can’t get them back.
I’d do nothing. Sleep as long as I want, go to bed when I want. Being online, being offline, it really does not matter. Like holidays, but forever.
No offense but wouldn’t that be kinda boring (say doing nothing for 10 years)? Maybe you also mean to do other things but didn’t mention.
Maybe. But feeling bored would be an amazing feeling for a change.
Once I’ve recovered from it all and not tired all the time I suppose I’d fix up the house, gardening, designing intricate sandwiches and cocktails and other drinks, write, play video games, hang out with friends, eat, drink, walk, travel… But like 5 days a week I’m gonna hang back, chill, watch tv, play video games (I have a huge backlog even though I game plenty).
oooh. design intricate sandwiches! sounds like a lovely holiday!!
It never got boring whenever I did this in the past (i.e. every holidays and vacations). So I’d say, no.
Probably work on Château Picard. Like living in a hypothetical post-scarcity world, having all of your needs met is not an excuse not to do productive work, or to adopt selfish goals.
While I understand the sentiment, there are a lot of jobs out there that are necessary but no one wants to do. If no one had to work society would fall apart. At least at this point in time. Maybe it we ever make it to the startrek universe with boundless energy, replictors, medical devices that just cure you.
Spending time with my wife
Working on open source projects
Learning new skills, musical instruments
Practicing karate
Spending time with my wife
A lot of woodworking, a lot of fishing, and a lot of hanging out with family. It would be glorious.
I would do a lot more camping and cycling mostly. really give the bass a red hot shot. tackle my pile of plastic shame
I do shit ton of traveling. Lots of camping and I spend a lot of spare time writing. Also I could knock out my backlog of games.
Reading, hiking, backpacking, cooking, brewing, fixing, loving, caring, dreaming, building, gaming, growing, learning, teaching.
Harder, better, faster, stronger
Hmmm I am kinda in this situation now and I have to say I still want to work just not for other people (unless I know them well). I actually am trying to be more active and working on my own stuff makes me feel good and gets me off my ass.
I just sleep in and play video games and be depressed. It’s not good.
I do that when I don’t work but will Monday, or after the holidays. But when I actually had time as in, I’m not going to have to be back to work for a long time, I’d start picking up useful stuff. Turns out the sleep in and games/ depressive state comes from expecting to have to go back to the routine again. That’s why how you react to time out when you are still pressured to have to work eventually doesn’t give you a good answer to this question.
I agree with this. It takes me weeks, if not months, to really unwind.
When I work I do my hobbies in my free time when I’m unemployed I do fuck all just playing games and passing the time.
Probably take a break for a month or two then look for some oss project or activism to participate in, play more music and video games, etc.
Working on something I want.
Gardening and pickling/preserving foods to start. Writing a novel.
Garden, fuck, go to the beach, read, dance, cook and ferment, hang out with people. Probably still work some for money if I needed it to buy stuff like drinks or an e-bike, or to travel, I’m sure we’d still have a money economy of some sort. Same stuff I’d do if I could afford to retire. If I was a few years younger, would foster a kid or two.
Oh, and I’m sure I could live a full and healthy life without paid employment, myself.
