Trying to improve the drop in sex & reproduction. Or make Japanese style game shows in the US.
I’m stuck here picturing these two efforts combined.
Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
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Re: Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
#42I've been making scented candles. Its easy enough to get started but there's enough complexity to it to keep things interesting. If I didn't need money I'd just do that all the time and build it into a small business (that didn't need to make money, since I'm sure it wouldn't haha)
Re: Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
#43A depressing reality to this question is to just look at the current crop of billionaires. None of them need money, yet many of them spend their time pursuing more. I know all of us have these quaint answers about all the noble or fulfilling things we would do, but the data doesn't seem to support that.
There's a bit less than 3000 billionaires, are you sure you're not just hearing about a very vocal minority?
Not to mention survivorship bias, the ones that reach that kind of wealth like money more than (other people's) life itself, often quite literally.
Re: Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
#44I'd open a bakery and make fresh sourdough bread, pizzas, focaccia and pasta every single day, and give it away for cost.
Re: Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
#45I'd work on whatever my current hobby is. The actual hobby changes over time.
Currently, my hobby is maintaining/repairing cars. If I had more time (and space), I'd restore old cars and/or build a track car (and of course use it on track).
Unfortunately the time and space limits means I don't even have the time to finish my very long TODO list on my own car.
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#46That's easy. Writing books and researching curiosities.
I have dozens of book ideas, from novels to reference volumes. My research would at least partially focus on energy/power generation/storage, and partially on current scientific mysteries in our reality.
Ideally, such work could help enrich humanity. Make the world better in some way. Sadly, unless I win a lottery tomorrow or a wealthy person issues me a grant, some of this work won't get done.
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#47I already love what I'm doing for a living as a CTO for a small start-up, and probably wouldn't quit, but if money absolutely wasn't an object and my current mission were fullfilled, then I'd probably spend more hours on gardening, and more hours on "technoetic" art/research projects: exploring consciousness through technological means.
Re: Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
#48I think I would want to work on an open source video game engine or a CPU.
In a world where nobody had to worry about money, I think we’d have trouble getting enough people together to work on a very good CPU. And I don’t know enough to do it on my own. But I think I’d enjoy tinkering with it, even if I got a very poor result.
Re: Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
#49I'd spend my days painting miniatures and reading. Don't really care enough about the rest of the world, to be honest; I'd turn inward.
Re: Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
#50I'd ask the same question, but with a sinister twist: What would you do if you don't worry about money AND law enforcement?
With enough money, you don't need to worry about law enforcement.