If guaranteed minimum income and universal healthcare were a thing, I think so many of my programmer colleagues would immediately take low-income sabbaticals to write high-quality good-ui users-first free and open source software that it would inspire tedious "how was it possible?!?" medium dot com thinkpieces for years and years

@datagrok the programming work I'm most proud of is a game I wrote while living in Thailand (low cost of living; effectively free healthcare) in between volunteering for various NGOs.