> You want to ascribe morality to those options, but I find the freedom to choose more interesting. It's not my job to judge which is more "productive". Maybe that novella in the end turns out to comment deeply on the human spirit, maybe those kids never use those skills "productively", maybe that startup goes bust and I return to the next plan. The moral imperative is that I should have the freedom to choose outside of the strictures of what the current job market finds productive or what government can legislate to be considered productive.

There is a moral aspect to this whether you like it or not. If you aren't living off your own money and resources, you are living off money and resources that have been taken from others and given to you. Those others might not want to give money they worked for to people who could work but choose not to. What right do you have to force them to give it to you?