If guaranteed minimum income and universal healthcare were a thing, I think so many of my programmer colleagues would immediately take low-income sabbaticals to write high-quality good-ui users-first free and open source software that it would inspire tedious "how was it possible?!?" medium dot com thinkpieces for years and years
@datagrok From personal experience, it's easy to have a list of projects you would start if only you didn't have to sell your time. I could have started any of them long before I took a year off. But it would have allowed for possible failure, shattering the fantasy of my noble self-image. The real work started after throwing out my original TODO list. In my past I wrote a piece of FLOSS that became popular. I was only able to write it because I had tiny goals and wanted to use it myself.
@polychrome I didn't mean time management. (Re-reading, I agree it reads like that.) Even with lots of time, I was unable to start what I thought I wanted. I figured out why and moved to new projects. In hindsight I could have picked one of them for my 20% day off, except that I did not want to fail.
I'm sceptical when a colleague claims to know what they would do with UBI, especially those who could reduce to 80% but don't. For myself, at 100% I'd even lack the energy to explore what I want.
@maxy I agree that time management skills are very important, but in my personal experience by the time I have free time from my job I have no energy left for anything creative and I just end up resting until the next day when it's time to get to work again.
Weekends are just as bad, alas.