[Alacart]

While I agree that would be great for many people, how are 99% of young people supposed to survive during this time? How do they pay their rent, buy groceries, and pay for these explorations without wage work?

[hypertexthero]

They can’t.

Need to have the day job and try to do something in the night, or vice versa.

We need a basic income.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=basic+income

[paulryanrogers]

Be born to rich parents, win the lottery, dumpster dive, live on the boat/aircraft?

[Mistletoe]

A friend of mine from New Mexico calls them Trustafarians, where they exist in droves.

[lispisok]

Lemme guess, Taos or Santa Fe?

[grecy]

Hitchhiking to Alaska is very cheap.

In fact driving a 4x4 from Alaska to Argentina only cost me the same as it did to live in a city and go to work everyday ~$1200 per month for everything