There's also no concept of just allowing people to lie fallow for a while to see what they come up with when they don't feel they have to do something immediately, now, all of the time.
This is something I've been puzzling about recently. If I now would leave geology and continue to receive the monthly income to sustain myself with food and shelter, what would I continue to do here in SA? I've already up to 5 projects in my head and no time left to execute them properly.
I do suspect that allowing people to lie fallow will result in a group of people that cherishes to just lie fallow all the time. We're descendants from apes after all.
In other words, if you were independently wealthy... Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
The mind's eye on (financial) wealth somehow always conjures a number containing more digits than my monthly allocation.
Any particular reason why the $250k figure came up?
I took ZA's GDP (nominal) per capita from wikipedia and multiplied by 20. The original figure came from taking the GDP (PPP), which was a mistake. Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
I do suspect that allowing people to lie fallow will result in a group of people that cherishes to just lie fallow all the time.
I suspect you may be right. I also suspect it wouldn't be a huge problem.
In fact I'd guess people who'd disappear into a haze of drugs, sleep and sex would probably be a very small minority. Apes like to keep busy, one way and another, and it might be surprising to see what happens if the usual social restrictions around work are relaxed.
