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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.
Teach
I'd throw parties probably, but only if poverty were eliminated for everyone.
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.
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.
What is retirement? A time when you will have enough money to just exist in whatever way you desire? Sounds fake.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
Indie game development. Except more full time instead of just on weekends like I do now.
Basic needs only? Still work so I can have money to do more than just basic things.
All the things I do for fun and hobbies I would do a lot more. Which would likely be the following:
But mostly I would work on living the permaculture / herbalism fantasy.
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.
It's really satisfying. I've done this a few times, fixing someone's home when they couldn't otherwise afford it is one of the biggest ways to make an impact on someone.
Done this in IT for folks, even back when I was charging for it. No one has the skills and knowledge to do everything in the modern world, and not everyone can pay a pro.
Purse writing
Help my community with the things I have expertise in.
Have children
I'm terrified because I don't really have an answer.
I think that's okay, because that just means your answer is something like "take some time to breathe and introspect about what I care about when I am given the space to care about stuff", or "try out a bunch of stuff I didn't have time or money for before, to see what seizes my passions".
I mean, it's not okay — it's a fucking injustice that so many of us are deprived of the opportunity to explore what we would do if we were free to live as we chose, but it's okay in the sense that it's not your fault, in case that's what you were feeling
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 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'd probably teach something like scuba diving.
Continue to work and fuck over poor people is very popular.
Same thing I do for money now, handyman shit
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 would find work where I enjoy myself, and get a hobby of travelling the world and documenting cultures
Someone asked me this question recently and I had a minor existential crisis.
I'd love to keep working and volunteering. I'd still contribute to society and the social network that comes with it, but with none of the burden of having to earn money to survive.
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.
Work on Free Open Source Software. Seriously, I fucking love software engineering and I can't really imagine doing anything else with my life. In fact, that's kinda my current plan - work towards financial independence and then work on things that matter to me, on my own terms. I really hope I won't get burned out somewhere in the process.
Art and music.
Science research.
This depends. But based on how much I have, one of these:
Open a small bar/tapas place in my neighborhood.
Travel
Do what I do when not working - garden, read, exercise, take care of the land & the animals, go see live music.
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.
Play video games. Bake bread. Learn to code. Create music. Maybe create a game of my own some day. Release it 100% for free because all my needs are met.
... oh, and sex. Lots of sex. But I think that goes without saying
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.
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.
I would spend a lot of time tending my garden, growing rare produce to share with the community, and crafting.
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.
I'd travel, try new cuisine, and I'd also pick up jobs for short stints to pick up skills, almost like journeyman apprentice, I'd also do some kind of social work, and go back to academia with the intent to actually learn and not just to get a degree and get a job, but to potentially do some actual research and development
Making music, and building guitars. That's all.
Today being labor day I would go down to the protest downtown, instead I'm going to the office to do as little work as I can manage, maybe have a couple meetings to slow other people down today too
Do so much more with horses Video games Art
Get high and scroll Lemmy, apparently
You know that guy that makes videos about how to live with Neolithic technology? That.
