Long time fan of Alan Watts here.

I'm retired, and spent 30 great years teaching little folks, which I truly loved. I started my Jr. yr. in HS, considering various occupations. I had a book from New York State Life Insurance company that wrote up many occupations in 10-20 pages sections. So, I started at the beginning of the book and each week I tried to look at the world through the lenses of that occupation...I thought by the beginning of my Sr. year that I'd become an bean counter for the insurance game, cause I was very good at math and I thought money would be cool. In college, I quickly became a "no pref" major, then engineering, then I took a class in economics that was superb and changed my major. I went into the Peace Corps as an Economic Adviser, came out and thought about working for Wall Street, cringed and started working as a live-in counselor with troubled youths, then a Teacher Corps ad was seen, I applied and was chosen to become a paid "Intern" for two years taking all the courses I chose wherever...some on the West coast, most in New England and this prepared me for the teaching career I had. Money was not the issue, as I started in 1979 making one quarter of my health insurance and less than $9K for the first year. We grew a large garden, had a paid off house and an old pick up truck for a vehicle. Alan is right.

it's totally unrealistic for large numbers of people.

I, for example, have expensive medical issues which no insurance plan will completely cover, and even if I did find one that would, I'd still have to pay the premium or find an employer who offers that coverage; so I was forced to consider money right out of school.