> where you can do nothing productive yet still live.
It's actually not possible to do that. Humans simply can't. As soon as a person has no reason to live, they start deteriorating.
If the person is healthy enough they turn to vices and intoxicants (legal or otherwise) to try to feel something. Other people simply wither. But in all cases a persons life is cut much shorter.
In lieu of a job, having children works too, since meeting their children's needs gives people a reason to exist (unless they have too much money, and hire a nanny).
It's actually not possible to do that. Humans simply can't. As soon as a person has no reason to live, they start deteriorating.
If the person is healthy enough they turn to vices and intoxicants (legal or otherwise) to try to feel something. Other people simply wither. But in all cases a persons life is cut much shorter.
In lieu of a job, having children works too, since meeting their children's needs gives people a reason to exist (unless they have too much money, and hire a nanny).