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I don't think I'd ever leave the makerspace.

Harass minorities.

Get a proper sleep.

DM or GM tabletop games for groups

Ride my Motorcycle and brew beer. Then go work out. Hang with friends. Hike, swim, explore the world.

I'd throw parties probably, but only if poverty were eliminated for everyone.

Spend as much time as I could in nature or playing video games. Or playing video games while in nature. Lots of camping.

I achieved this 2 years ago. I spend my time rock climbing, travelling to rock climbing, hanging with friends, lifting, running, tackling little diy projects, working part time in a fun job to get some extra spending money, and trying to sleep with as many hot women as possible.

This is a lot of fun, and I highly recommend it.

Beat on red hot metal with a hammer, and fly hot air balloons.

So all that would change is that my basic needs would actually be met.

I would work on open-source software and play games, which is what I already do, I'd just have more free time to do it.

Basic needs only? Still work so I can have money to do more than just basic things.

I would make handcrafted furniture, work on my garden, and contribute to open source software that supports both farming and woodcrafts.

Find a deserted corner in the Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest, likely up near Haida Gawaii, and just… vanish.

I like civilization in general for the benefits it brings. I even like a few people. But humanity in general…

I truly enjoy solitude.

I would do nothing while also not stressing out about doing nothing.

Teach

I'd probably teach something like scuba diving.

Indie game development. Except more full time instead of just on weekends like I do now.

You're describing retirement. And, boy have I spent a LOT of time thinking about what that looks like.

A lot of people have lists of things they'd do, see, learn, or be. I had one too, but it kept fucking changing depending on where I was in life and what my interests were.

Any list I had always felt restrictive. Here's where I ended up instead...

I would put my energy and attention only on the things that I want to put them on at any given time.

I guess some call that living in the moment, but I call it retirement.

Purse writing

Help my community with the things I have expertise in.

Have children

I'd make a few kids with my wife, make my private pilot license and travel the world with my family by plane (as the pilot, of course). In the meantime I build aviation related open source software.

I'm there. I'm hanging out with friends, spending time in nature, I have a few hobbies, and the rest of the time I'm summoning the wrath of the gods and goddesses to smite the corrupt powers of the world.

So, I'm pretty content.

I would find work where I enjoy myself, and get a hobby of travelling the world and documenting cultures

Create art. Writing screenplays and books. Painting, gardening, working out, traveling, seeing live music, volunteer with whatever great organization I happen to be into at the time. Spend more time in my community. Have children.

I'm terrified because I don't really have an answer.

Continue to work and fuck over poor people is very popular.

Same thing I do for money now, handyman shit

All the things I do for fun and hobbies I would do a lot more. Which would likely be the following:

• Exercise (running in the warm months and skiing in the cold)
• TTRPGs (I might move from 1 day of the week into two, and assuming everyone else has the same deal play in-person instead of digitally)
• Reading (books and more books)

But mostly I would work on living the permaculture / herbalism fantasy.

• Do a lot more herbal formulation and
• Maybe open the small apothecary to sell things at Art fairs and other makers markets.
• Turn my urban yard into a full food forest to help grow some of my own food, and herbs. (I want to have an urban oasis of edible trees, bushes and other useful plants)
• Volunteer more a local prairie restoration group that I have worked with in the past
• Finally spend some time gorilla gardening on open lots and sides of alleyways around my neighborhood to spread the plant love.

A) mental health would absolutely improve so I'd have more energy for

B) producing more shows and putting on more events. Personally I don't want to retire because I want to create a career where if I did retire I'd just do what I was doing anyway. I'm kinda doing that now but I have more BS and stress to deal with.

Read a lot of books. Swim. Go for coffee anytime I could with friends. Volunteer. Sit and stare out the window at the rain. Foster parenting.

Someone asked me this question recently and I had a minor existential crisis.

I've been using the stress of needing to do things to keep me going. Without it I can't even imagine what I'd do.

I'm a licensed electrician. I do construction for my job.

If I didn't need to work to support myself and my family, I'd offer my services as a licensed electrician to my community at-cost. I'd charge for materials, but not my own labor. Basically, just use the skills I have to support others in my community who could benefit from those skills.

But I also wouldn't work anything close to 40 hours/week.

Streamer but in like a chill way, no subs

I would still be programming. Just that it would be the projects I want to do, instead of the ones my employer wants to do.

I'd design and build useful things

Judging by what I've seen lately: crime and opression to maintain my status because I only understand the world through the lenses of artficial scarcity and zero sum game theory.