| > I'm not convinced our minds are able to cope with the option of doing nothing. You conflate "doing anything" with "working". A lot of people would be extremely happy partying every other for most of their lives. > We currently have to do very little to exist in 1st world countries, at least compared to what we had to do in the past and yet you've got a plethora extremely unhappy individuals. You don't know how strongly those two are correlated and why. I'd claim that a lot of unhappy individuals are such because they have no direction in life and that direction can be a ton of other things who are not paid work. > Maybe I'm pessimistic but I don't think many people do that just for the sake of curiosity or discovery. Correct, I'd optimistically say 20% of people would but the cynic in me says 6-7%. Still, as said above, there are plenty of activities that aren't paid work that are enjoyable. Plus you don't need to have only hobby. I've known some rich people who have anywhere between 7 to 10 active hobbies at a time and they successfully alternate them to keep themselves busy and engaged. |