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Quixoticgeek
Quixoticgeek
@quixoticgeek@social.v.st  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

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 ?

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C.S.Strowbridge
C.S.Strowbridge
@csstrowbridge@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 29 seconds ago

@quixoticgeek

I would still work my part time job, I would just be less stressed about everything.

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Sam Livingston-Gray
Sam Livingston-Gray
@geeksam@ruby.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 minutes ago

@quixoticgeek woodworking, maybe teach programming.

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FoolishOwl
FoolishOwl
@foolishowl@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 18 minutes ago

@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.

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Oblomov
Oblomov
@oblomov@sociale.network replied  ·  activity timestamp 35 minutes ago

@quixoticgeek I think I would mostly do the same things that I do today.

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Jos Dingjan
Jos Dingjan
@happydisciple@mendeddrum.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 54 minutes ago

@quixoticgeek Study maths, teach, go sailing, do more sail training volunteering (combining the teaching and the sailing and with some luck the maths)…

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Tamtam
Tamtam
@Tamtam@mastodon.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 1 hour ago

@quixoticgeek and I would keep caring for my disabled family member, but with more peace of mind and less fear for my own survival.

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Tamtam
Tamtam
@Tamtam@mastodon.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 1 hour ago

@quixoticgeek art!Art!ART!

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Benzo Kazooie
Benzo Kazooie
@benjamincox@writing.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 1 hour ago

@quixoticgeek WRITE!!! I’d write like a man possessed! Hell, some of it might even get published.

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Legit_Spaghetti
Legit_Spaghetti
@Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@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.

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Michael Brandtner
Michael Brandtner
@MBrandtner@gruene.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@quixoticgeek Answer hypothetical quesions on Mastodon.

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Fish Id Wardrobe
Fish Id Wardrobe
@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@quixoticgeek quit my job and concentrate on looking after my disabled family. i'm in my 60s, i can't keep juggling responsibilities forever…

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The Crafty Miss
The Crafty Miss
@TheDonsieLass@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@quixoticgeek Nature and animal stuff

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Nikkileah 🎮🚄🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧
Nikkileah 🎮🚄🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧
@Nikkileah@mendeddrum.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@quixoticgeek probably still what I'm doing now

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Tats 🇬🇧🫖
Tats 🇬🇧🫖
@Tattooed_Mummy@beige.party replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@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'

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doncish
doncish
@doncish@norden.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@quixoticgeek

- 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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Jakob Thoböll - R.I.P. Natenom
Jakob Thoböll - R.I.P. Natenom
@jakob_thoboell@kirche.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@quixoticgeek
- work in research (as I do today)
- spend more time in civil protection and other volontary tasks like education justice.

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PalmAndNeedle
PalmAndNeedle
@PalmAndNeedle@norden.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@quixoticgeek build a boat

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Yvan
Yvan
@yvan@toot.ale.gd replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@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.

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Kathy Murdoch
Kathy Murdoch
@kapellosaur@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@quixoticgeek Draw, learn, and look for connections

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Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’
Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’
@grammasaurus@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@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.

#resistance

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Ben Fulton
Ben Fulton
@benfulton@urbanists.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@quixoticgeek The same thing we do every night, Pinky.

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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things
Alfred Chow - Maker of Things
@Maker_of_Things@cupoftea.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@quixoticgeek
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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Dingo
Dingo
@electric_gumball@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@quixoticgeek
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.

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Satu Elisa Schaeffer
Satu Elisa Schaeffer
@satuelisa@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@quixoticgeek I would help people learn useful stuff and learn other useful stuff from them in return

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