If all your basic needs were met and you didn't have to work to get by, what would you do with your life?

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

Same thing I do for money now, handyman shit

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.

Do so much more with horses Video games Art

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

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.

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.

Start painting or some shit idk

Art and music.

Science research.

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.

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.

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

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

I would spend a lot of time tending my garden, growing rare produce to share with the community, and crafting.

Making music, and building guitars. That's all.

Acting and singing. Studied Musical Theater in my twenties but couldn't see myself making a living at it.

Make my pottery, dive deeper into woodworking, and learn permaculture farming.

I teach philosophy for a living these days.

I’d probably keep doing that, but less of it.

I’d also do a lot of writing.

Making furniture with woodworking or maybe kitchen utensils with blacksmithing.

I work in cloud tech. Pretty good at it.

But I feel like I should be doing something with my hands. Like woodworking or blacksmithing.

I live in a apartment so I don't have the space to even try out hobby stuff. It's also expensive to do either.

I settled for electrical stuff and bought a bunch of gear to learn soldering. Playing with breadboard is interesting but I enjoy the soldering more.

Move to Canada, Europe, or Aus/NZ.

Most likely scroll through Lemmy and play video games, pursue hobbies.

Enjoy it

Organise more and better LARPs

I'm a software engineer so I'd probably seek a way to use my skills in a way that benefits people, possibly something tied to volunteering work I already do. And also contribute to some open source project.

I'd try to maintain a somewhat regular working schedule but with fewer hours per day than I currently spend at my job. Maybe I'd travel and work from different places.

Make a tiny caravan and travel all over

I would walk my dog, lift weights, study foreign languages, help my community

When all your needs are met, you help others with theirs.

First year I'd definitely visit all Formula 1 Grand Prix.

Travel, camp, travel. Play with dog

I think the saying “if more money wouldn’t change the way you live your life, then you’re already rich” applies to me pretty well. I don’t think my life would be all that different. Maybe I’d spend more time working on my own projects instead of customers’, but generally speaking, there’s nothing I’m not doing because of financial limitations.

My ultimate goal, though, would be to buy a small old farm with some land and spend the rest of my adult life working on that.

I'd like to think I'd actually do all the art I'm too fucking stressed to sit down and focus on. Maybe make a video game or two.

My long term wish has always been to fuck off to somewhere not-too-warm and tropical, and write stories from a place where I can see the sea.

Get high and scroll Lemmy, apparently

Work to solve problems. Not on a fixed schedule, but my choosing.

Also, long walks and visiting people I like.

Get on my bike and see how far it could take me. And when I was done with that I would go build bike trails for my community.

I’d sell all my things to just travel. Living in one place and being stuck in a routine is like a mental prison for me.

Politics. Gotta ensure that utopia survives and expands

I’d start with gardening, fishing, road tripping, camping, hiking, but I think that might eventually not be stimulating enough. I’d probably pickup a hobby that would enable artistic expression. Maybe pottery, or stained glass?

Make music, check it out:

www.thassodar.com

I don't make money from it so I'd still do it even if all my needs were met.

Retire. Fighting my medical conditions is a full time job as it is.

Write, program, cook, maybe have sex

So many hobbies

Knowing me, do what I normally do in my free time, but hopefully actually get projects done.

I'd have plenty of time to play games, watch my shows, listen to CDs/music, hopefully finish a project I started on Wattpad or another program, and spend time learning coding to help with my NeoCities site and some other projects I wanna work on but don't know enough to make become a realiety.

Painting, drawing. General arts. Travel. Eating adventures. Fitness. Electronics and automation. Programming. Health focus.

And I'd make my point and click adventure game. Finally.

The dream

Run an animal sanctuary and grow lots of veggies and flowers

Volunteer at various non-profits. I am (sadly) one of those people that "need" to work in some capacity in order to fill fulfilled. I also need structure, which I'm not very good at building for myself. I need to be held accountable (such as being expected to show up to work at a certain time), and work has always helped me do that.

I'm about to leave my current job with no back-up plan, and while my savings and partner will provide for me for the rest of the year, I'm kinda dreading not having structure. I'll probably volunteer somewhere.

I’d be a teacher

Travel, meet with friends, play video games, watch some movies.

Make music, write terrible sci-fi, and publish economics research (assuming we haven’t reached post-scarcity yet).

Basically I’d have time to actually dedicate myself to my hobbies.