If you had a universal basic income that was enough to cover your basic living costs (food, rent, bills etc...).
What would you do with your time ?
If you had a universal basic income that was enough to cover your basic living costs (food, rent, bills etc...).
What would you do with your time ?
I would still work my part time job, I would just be less stressed about everything.
@quixoticgeek woodworking, maybe teach programming.
@quixoticgeek Tinker with computers and help other people with theirs, do more roleplaying games, maybe try to write fiction.
I'm unemployed now, so I'm trying to do some of this, but the need to find a job before unemployment payments run out overshadows everything, and most other people are working so they're busy most of the time.
@quixoticgeek I think I would mostly do the same things that I do today.
@quixoticgeek Study maths, teach, go sailing, do more sail training volunteering (combining the teaching and the sailing and with some luck the maths)…
@quixoticgeek and I would keep caring for my disabled family member, but with more peace of mind and less fear for my own survival.
@quixoticgeek art!Art!ART!
@quixoticgeek WRITE!!! I’d write like a man possessed! Hell, some of it might even get published.
@quixoticgeek Build software that brings people together with the magic of play. I think working with a team where everyone is there solely because they WANT to and not because they HAVE to would be transformative.
@quixoticgeek Answer hypothetical quesions on Mastodon.
@quixoticgeek quit my job and concentrate on looking after my disabled family. i'm in my 60s, i can't keep juggling responsibilities forever…
@quixoticgeek Nature and animal stuff
@quixoticgeek probably still what I'm doing now
@quixoticgeek as I just retired I am sort of at this stage. I'm choosing to work part time to afford luxuries and fun such as festivals and booze, and spoiling my granddaughter.
But when I fully retire. I will read. And behave like a person on holiday. Investigating new places. Eating. Baking. Chilling
I assume capitalism would be very afraid everyone might do this if we didn't need to 'work'
- more training (fitness)
- more socializing
- local political work
- private projects (IT, FOSS, Wiki, on-premise LLM)
- more gardening (fruit, veggies)
- more gaming
- more travelling
- less bullshitting and Industrieschauspiel
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- work in research (as I do today)
- spend more time in civil protection and other volontary tasks like education justice.
@quixoticgeek aside from spend more time on my own neglected things and projects (such as garden/allotment): find some meaningful outdoors volunteer work I could do in the areas of habitat/forestry restoration; something in the area of communal/community gardening; and maybe some OSS contributions or creations for the evenings and bad-weather days.
@quixoticgeek Draw, learn, and look for connections
@quixoticgeek When I retired I thought I’d travel a lot and try new things, write another play or a book maybe? Continue my musical education projects, blah blah. What I never planned on was having to actively fight my govt and the folks who still support it—but here we are.
@quixoticgeek The same thing we do every night, Pinky.
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I'd be fixing things for people. Same as I do at Repair Cafe, but probably more frequently.
I'd also spend time working on local community projects, maybe teaching woodwork, and metal work, repair skills, and I would get back to writing.
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Spend time with my family, build things, make music, have a social life.
You know, all the things that are stolen from me on a daily.
@quixoticgeek I would help people learn useful stuff and learn other useful stuff from them in return