I'll add some framing meta-thoughts. Choosing to live in a GSCITC over waldenponding (an admitted caricature of the extreme opposite) is like choosing to live in a city over a log cabin. At some level you admit that you're better at surviving in an advanced collective context.
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It took centuries, but our identities are no longer tied to being literal breadwinners as in hunting/farming. We're happy to re-anchor bread-winning ego/vanity to earning tokens (money) in an artificial economy. There was a time when earning $ was not unlike earning likes today.
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Both waldenponding and GSCITC immersion seem like sort of easy ways out from some golden, gritty, strenuous middle way that we should have a name for, something like "real work," neither "deep work" nor "surfing."
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Or I wonder how someone like Christopher Alexander fits in your theory. He didn't retreat to Walden Pond but collaborated with others to build places for communities, and then also shared that experience in a pattern form that was sort of like a wiki but more significant...
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