| He doesn’t have to sit around doing nothing. He can start a rock band.
He can paint. He can get a job at Vons to get a discount on health insurance. The couple that founded Sierra Online woke up one day and made a new game. Being wealthy they had no economic pressure to do this. If I woke up rich tomorrow I’d probably work on video games and open source them. Which is what I’m doing now, just after my day job. Dream level 1:
A game studio that makes quality open source games. Level 2:
An easy open source game engine. Level 3:
A programming language with 3 built in levels of abstraction.
LLM level, just write what you want to the application to do and it’ll “build” the functions in real time. Scripting level:
Something like C# or Typescript. Systems level: Low level like Rust or C. Mixing and matching each level in the same project is encouraged. Dream Level 4- which would require billions upon billions of dollars to even attempt. A completely open source OS along with open source hardware, phones, computers, tvs, etc. It scales from a 40$ Raspberry PI like device to a 10k super computer. Your phone belongs to YOU, want to run your own code on it, cool. I’d build the OS in the same language described in Level 3.
Linux is great, but it’s also bloated from needing to run on billions of devices. If you instead say no, you make your hardware fit the OS, not the other way around much of the code could be removed. Anyway, I think I’ll be able to retire bit early ( early 50s) and then just work on weird open source games. Everything else in this post would require much more money than I’ll ever have. But I declare the contents this comment CC0/MIT. Maybe a lurking billionaire will read it and do it. Give the people back their freedom! |