Paid to Live on a Deserted Island for 1.5 Years and Do Nothing but Kill Seals

[exolymph]

https://dormin.org/2020/07/10/how-much-would-you-need-to-be-paid-to-live-on-a-deserted-island-for-1-5-years-and-do-nothing-but-kill-seals/

[caymanjim]

I'm surprised at the author's surprise. It's utterly inconceivable to them that anyone would voluntarily strand themselves on an island.

This isn't a great island to hang out on, and I have no desire to club thousands of seals to death, but I'd happily spend a year alone on an island that had sufficient natural resources to sustain myself, with a reasonable supply of tools and other basic provisions. So long as there was fresh water, arable land, and game to hunt or fish, I'd sign up. I'd just rather do forestry or something than kill seals.

[eesmith → caymanjim]

See Tom Neale's "An Island to Oneself: The Story of Six Years on a Desert Island". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Neale . 1 hour loan from https://archive.org/details/islandtooneselft00neal .

[exolymph → caymanjim]

> I'd happily spend a year alone on an island that had sufficient natural resources to sustain myself, with a reasonable supply of tools and other basic provisions.

Then what's stopping you?