Yes! This incidental yield focus 'forces' one to engage in social context in variously rich ways, which I consider to be a benefit. Or rather, my vision for my life is deeply integrated in a rich and dynamic social context, and I see decentralizing $, shelter, food, lower-level Maslow's needs stuff, as a forcing function/accelerant for realizing that way of living.
JnG's recent description of how his life works feels relevant: his ~$0 lifestyle depends on his social context and "exploiting" attractive flow vacuums.
Ego wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 5:16 pmFunding life with non-incidental yields takes effort. While it may not be hard, it is not easy. To what extent is non-incidental earning a use-it-or-lose-it skill? How hard would it be to have no choice but to go back to non-incidental work after 1, 2 , 5 or 20 years of purely incidental yields? I wonder if an 80/20 incidental/non-incidental distribution may work better than pure incidental.
I suspect that for most people or definitions of "better", you are right. 100% incidental feels risky, although I wonder if that's because of socialized perspectives on money and work. Either way, I'm very curious if going 100% Incidental becomes something different in kind than a mix of incidental/non-incidental, leading to a lifestyle where the chances of "having" to go back to non-incidental yields just doesn't even make much sense. e.g. if in 5-10 years it leads to a wide positive reputation, a 200x stash, multiple shelter options amidst abundant disaster-resistant food production locations...
It basically boils down to - if I focus almost entirely on value I can bring to other people, and seek out these flow vacuum points (attractors? need to study Daylen more, it's on the top of my tongue) as high-leverage inflection points for application of my energy/efforts, will my "returns" be even much more abundant than if I actually focused on returns, even if only a little bit? Will I expose myself to getting taken advantage of, and die a pauper? Are there highly critical gateway skills that if I lack them, I'll fail at this, but if I possess/can gain them, I'll flourish wildly?