[flashm]

You've proven my point. If you had money on a tree, you'd do it, but as you don't (as far as I know!) you won't.

I would love to have a basic income, or an endless supply or money and be able to work on what I want, when I want. At the moment I'm not quite there, so have to find the odd day or two per week to work on more interesting 'stuff' than paying bills.

[mbrock]

I wasn't trying to disprove your point!

It's interesting that there is this huge contingent of programmers who have a picture of what they would do if they had basic income, and that that picture is very different from what they do at their "day jobs."

It's part of why I think basic income experiments are so very interesting. Just this question of what would people do? What new things would happen? How would software change? How would everything else change?

[flashm]

Ah sorry that's the way it read, probably my comprehension!

It's a very interesting field. I'm not waiting around for it to happen though, especially in the UK which is a very conservative country in the main.

I'm actively building my business so that I can take a back seat, or sell it within 3 years and thus spend more time solving different problems (that may or may not have a monetary end-game for me).

At the moment they are just side projects!