> If you have the resources to spend some time exploring, if you are on to interesting threads of novelty that few other people have, and if you have the spirit to tighten your belt, throw out your map, and explore off-road, then your real job is to do so.

The essay is calling out people of means directly and telling them to stop wasting their time.

If you have the means, it is your real job to do so.

The entire article is a call to build a leisure class. Not whisky and xbox leisure. Newton and Seneca leisure.

This doesn't smell like privilege, it is privilege. But it is highlighting not only the opportunity of that life, but the duty.