Academia has too much bureaucracy. All those ethics forms and shitty administrative services. My own university is prestigious but I feel like it's grown faster than it can handle. Startups, by comparison, are so stressful. With most corporate type jobs, you're a lacky (even senior managers are lacky's to the market or shareholders) and won't necessarily be doing something that's intrinsically valuable, the same can be said of government employees since they're at the mercy of politicians who are the mercy of popular opinion. Working is a subsistence capacity and sharing your excess as part of a mutually resilient yet altruistic community seems like the best option! Though I don't know of any altruistic homesteading communities...anywhere!