"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.