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If you didn't have to work, how would you spend your time? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 6 months ago by khiemtu27 to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Work on projects that I think are important instead of just profitable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Could you answer more vaguely please?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago

Yes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I tried to be accurate instead of specific.

If I didn't have to work anymore, I'd have more time to explore potential things to work on, so whatever project I'd pick right now would probably not be my main focus after 3 months of settling into my new life.

From where I am right now, I think it would be something to do with language-level features for distributed computing (but not that web3 nonsense). There's a lot of potential to weaken the monopoly power of cloud providers by working on something like that, which is why it's an under-explored area.

But I'd need more people to work with, and some specific use cases to go after. So I would expect the effort to change a lot by the time I actually found the right group of people to work with.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Lets do this! 😀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Hell yeah, I would not be helping puff up a doomed tech product for venture selloff if I was chasing actual utility.