The freedom to pursue creative fulfillment is very unusual in human history.
The vast majority of the time it just takes far too much time and energy to survive.
On very rare occasions, people have enough time to create art.
An example I can think of is the native Americans in the pacific north west, before the arrival of Europeans.
The unique combination of:
Seasonal salmon runs - very good calorie rich food that's easy to catch.
A mountainous geography - keeps population reasonably small.
Resulted in a societies that could quickly catch and store enough food for the whole year.
And they ended up with a surplus of time and energy - free time.
Unsurprisingly that led to a staggering amount of art.
Sculpture - totem poles, music, dance, etc.
But again, that's very unusual.
The only other example I can think of is ancient Greece and they had a lot of free time thanks to slavery.
The one entrepreneurial solution to this, that I can think of is robotics.
I already have a dish washer and a roomba, but those only save a few hours a week. To really free up my time I need something that will do my work for me, like a robot that can code in C++.
I just hope the robots don't rebel or something like that.
The vast majority of the time it just takes far too much time and energy to survive.
On very rare occasions, people have enough time to create art. An example I can think of is the native Americans in the pacific north west, before the arrival of Europeans.
The unique combination of:
Seasonal salmon runs - very good calorie rich food that's easy to catch.
A mountainous geography - keeps population reasonably small.
Resulted in a societies that could quickly catch and store enough food for the whole year.
And they ended up with a surplus of time and energy - free time.
Unsurprisingly that led to a staggering amount of art. Sculpture - totem poles, music, dance, etc.
But again, that's very unusual. The only other example I can think of is ancient Greece and they had a lot of free time thanks to slavery.
The one entrepreneurial solution to this, that I can think of is robotics.
I already have a dish washer and a roomba, but those only save a few hours a week. To really free up my time I need something that will do my work for me, like a robot that can code in C++.
I just hope the robots don't rebel or something like that.