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Exactly what I am already doing. imagineering my top rated VR Theme Park and explore SE Asia and other parts of the world. Love both.

[-] Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The same life but without the pressure of a job.

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 5 points 1 day ago
[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 50 points 2 days ago

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

Also, long walks and visiting people I like.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Still work but at a reduced rate and else I would actually think about volunteering or improving my living conditions like a garden or tech at gome :)

[-] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago

Make video games or digital interactive art pieces for VR

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I'd be one of those old school naturalists and just, like, go live in a swamp for three years with one pair of clothes, a cot, a journal, and a pencil.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'd spend more time playing guitar and chess and spend more time with my son.

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I'd make things like drones or robots or something.

[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

I would become an author and write plenty of fiction, poems, short stories. I might also get into game development. And if time permits, I would even pick up on astronomy.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I would build affordable housing.

[-] PurpleGameBoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

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

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago

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

[-] machine2918@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] Whats_a_lemmy@ponder.cat 6 points 2 days ago

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

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

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?

[-] Azal@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

I don't think I'd ever leave the makerspace.

[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Indie game development. Except more full time instead of just on weekends like I do now.

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Art and music.

Science research.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] SuperNovaStar 8 points 2 days ago

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

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I'd throw parties probably, but only if poverty were eliminated for everyone.

[-] die444die@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I mean I think you can still throw some parties even before then. Just keep it realistic.

[-] Kookie215@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Travel, camp, travel. Play with dog

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 18 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 7 points 2 days ago

You know that guy that makes videos about how to live with Neolithic technology? That.

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[-] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

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.

You better up that smite'n. Its pretty corrupt out there.

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Kung fu, charitable volunteering, and any intellectual challenge I could take on.

[-] Hazelnutcookiez 1 points 1 day ago

play more games learn to draw maybe pick up a new language.

[-] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Continue to work and fuck over poor people is very popular.

[-] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] addiks@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 points 2 days ago

I would find work where I enjoy myself, and get a hobby of travelling the world and documenting cultures

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago

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

[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

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

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

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

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Define basic needs.

Is that just food water shelter utilities Healthcare clothing?

Does it include entertainment?

Travel?

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