> I like my work, and I like tech, but if I loved it, I wouldn't need to be paid to do it. Cut off my funding for it, and I'll probably continue to do it, but at a totally different path and pace as to what I get paid to do.

Amen, I've often joked I'd program 40hrs a week if basic income was a reality I'd just work on open source/projects that benefited people directly instead.

I don't love what I'm working on (or even like it) but I love programming and so on balance I get to do something I love for money - not a bad deal most of the time.

I've done the minimum wage thing (did it for 8-9 years in my late teens-mid twenties) and the other side of the coin is pretty horrible.