"SR is my only hope for not starving to death, or the nanny state".Start a fricken business. there is ALWAYS money to be made if you have brains and balls. I started my own businesses while I was still in high school and made it through post-secondary without taking a dime in loans while all my friends were paying theirs off for 10 years after. That sentence you wrote is such a cop-out from life it's insane. Use this mind-power you find so incredible and make something happen - if you are smarter than your employers than compete with them and beat their entire business into oblivion by out-competing and out-innovating them.Otherwise it just comes down to being scared of a little blood, sweat, and tears. Hard work sucks, I know, but it pays off if you keep at it and find even a partially-"right" thing.Not that I'm discounting what you're doing on here at all - it's honorable. But you dont' have to use the padded margins created by restriction and prohibition to be successful. My family is full of successful entrepreneurs that HATE the state, but still do "legitimate" business.