Nicole, what do you think of a basic living income for everyone? Basically financial freedom - just like that:)

Love your article by the way! You're a hell of a woman:) An inspiration.

Here are some of my thoughts on this topic.

My 25-year-old brother (I'm 44), who is very proud of himself that he has built a construction company at his young age (and he definitely can be proud of all that), lives in a beautiful but expenses flat he bought with his fiance and so on, has called me childish.

Why? Because I chose to spend my money on supporting my partners, on some travel for myself and that's about it. I've always worked hard but as you say, working hard doesn't make you rich.

Just yesterday I read a little book. In it was a thought which said: "You are as rich as you have been giving."

I really loved the thought.

What was meant by that is that the house you have or any other possessions, they can be taken away, ruined by a hurricane, banks can collapse (it happened in some countries like Serbia).

But the one thing no one and nothing can take away, is the life you have supported at the time, people you have helped, as I have helped my brother move to London and be able to reach out for a fantastic dream job in the first place, or the partners who have all reached their full potential at my side, degrees, jobs, money, great families in the end... My girlfriends who benefited from my advice and emotional support...

I definitely could have and maybe shold have learned about finances more in my twenties instead of just recently, but you see, I was financially free in a different way.

Now I don't know if that was good or wise thinking at the time, but you tell me.

I wasn't the only one who figured out in my early twenties one crucial and non-convential way to live: if you don't spend so much, you don't have to work so much.

Hence, I've always lived in flat shares, kept my costs super low, was able to work part time certain years when I wanted to learn more about building my own business and focused on photography, able to take months at a time off to go and travel. Granted I only did that twice, each time for three months.

With other words, I had quite a lot of free time and time to study different things and yet I was financially on my own, maybe not entirely free, but independent and free in between.

Of course like that you can't save anything, but you gain certain experiences and memories which I'd definitely rather have (like swimming with turtles in Mexico) than a million bucks. Maybe my brother is right, perhaps that IS childish, but then I'd rather be a bit childish then have a heart attack at the age of 30 as he will have if he doesn't slow down a bit.

I don't mind working, generally, especially if it's just two or three days a week. You see a couple of colleagues, you are part of something which gets you out of bed...

But what if our world changed and they introduced the basic living wage for everyone, as they are trying in certain countries and as it has been proven in Canada in an experiment, that it works really well? The outcome was, that people didn't work less just because they had financial safety, they worked even a bit more, most of them anyway.

Nicole, do you think it would take something away from our lives, the fight that we are so proud of in the end, if suddenly we all had some financial safety and complete freedom simply offered to us on a silver platter? ;)