TLDR: Make working optional, but require a medium friction process to opt out of working which is designed to prevent people from becoming aimless/depressed.
We might need jobs which are designed not to be productive to society but to provide purpose / fun / fulfillment.
If anyone has something they’d really like to be doing which is not a job, they can apply for money to go do that and probably get funded.
But most people who don’t have the motivation to design their own active and challenging life which keeps them happy will do the default thing which is get a job that seems like something they’d enjoy, and they will be happier than if left to their own devices without direction.
TLDR: Make working optional, but require a medium friction process to opt out of working which is designed to prevent people from becoming aimless/depressed.
We might need jobs which are designed not to be productive to society but to provide purpose / fun / fulfillment.
If anyone has something they’d really like to be doing which is not a job, they can apply for money to go do that and probably get funded.
But most people who don’t have the motivation to design their own active and challenging life which keeps them happy will do the default thing which is get a job that seems like something they’d enjoy, and they will be happier than if left to their own devices without direction.