In Praise of a Nomadic Life
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In Praise of a Nomadic Life
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#2>>>I kept pinning my happiness on future events.
This is true. I don't think you have to go to the extreme of living a nomadic life to address it, but I definitely feel where the author is coming from.
The first time I realized this, in conjunction with how much of what my expectation of happiness comes from media, it was a really jarring experience.
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#3> Nor will we have children
This is no way to run a civilization.
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#4> Nor will we have children This is no way to run a civilization.
There's no moral obligation to help run civilizations.
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#5> Nor will we have children This is no way to run a civilization.
How might I be incentivised to have children?
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#6> Nor will we have children This is no way to run a civilization.
How might I be incentivised to have children?
If I were in charge I would institute a basic income for all citizens over the age of 18 (no additional money for children) and would make each child someone had a significant tax break against income. People who could afford them would be incentivized to have them.
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#7I traveled around for a period, and my feeling is that any joy to be found in a nomadic lifestyle and travelling cannot compare to the feeling of belonging and connectedness that being a part of a real physical community gives you.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
How might I be incentivised to have children?
If I were in charge I would institute a basic income for all citizens over the age of 18 (no additional money for children) and would make each child someone had a significant tax break against income. People who could afford them would be incentivized to have them.
Why incentivize people to have children when there is no shortage of them?
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#9Nomadism is lovely but I believe that natural comfortable state for humans is to be Migratory. Find several comfortable places that you belong in specific seasons and move amongst them. You can develop ties and a sense of ritual belonging while having most of a benefits of a nomadic life.
Snowbirds, Celebrities, Jet Set, Aristocrats, Fashion industry have all figured this out as the most comfortable form of human life at some point or another.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I were in charge I would institute a basic income for all citizens over the age of 18 (no additional money for children) and would make each child someone had a significant tax break against income. People who could afford them would be incentivized to have them.
Why incentivize people to have children when there is no shortage of them?
Actually, in many Western countries there is, much of Europe for example. Sustainable demographics are why there are subsidies for having children in Italy for example.