You can make money selling weight loss pills, dating books, and shallow self-help “get rich” books, but if you write a comprehensive history of China, a philosophical book on the inner workings of the mind, or a paper solving various mathematical dilemmas… good luck getting that promoted on Oprah.

What happens is the people who work hard, resist the system, and try to work on inventing things live in poverty (unless they inherited riches from someone). They die, and then people finally realize the value of what they were doing. They glorify him with some little picture in their college textbooks, then they all begin to use his research, and private companies use his work to make some product, and everyone gets a better life but the person who did the work.

The only ways available to get money is either to 1) be an entrepreneur and make money and “escape” from the system, 2) get government contracts Also they only bid to people with college degrees, which forces you to go through an eight year system, which leaves you buried in debt to your eye-balls, not to mention takes up a huge percentage of your life, writing papers you don’t want to write, reading about things you don’t care about…. 10 years of that craziness will certainly take all life passion for your own research away from you.

What’s sad is that the system has been so heavily manipulated that if you don’t work full-time, you can’t even make enough money to do anything. People like me, who want to do research on all kinds of interesting things, get stuck instead working and doing all kinds of worthless work.

It’s hard to say “go and be free, do what you love” when you’re not free to do anything you want to do unless you have money, and the tyranny of the majority, and insane leaders bent on their own personal conquest, controls who gets money.

Obviously these people who control money lack every form of wisdom, as school teachers struggle to get by, worthless rappers have money to swim in, and our brightest scientists and inventors are employed by governments making weapons to kill us all.

I read about Thoreau, who goes and builds a cabin out in the middle of the woods near some lake, and works part-time a few months out of the year to make enough money to buy his books and food. Who can do that anymore? Today, everyone owns their own private property. All these invisible property lines exist. All land has been claimed. You go there, build yourself a little building, then the owner of the property comes and runs you off. The city comes and says, “The building you built doesn’t follow our codes” and they bulldoze it down. Then if you wish to build a place for yourself, it will cost you $100,000+ dollars, and that’s for a tiny shack. Working a normal job, part-time, like Thoreau did, that would take you over 10 years to save up, and that’s assuming you save ALL the money you make, and none is taken out for expenses. But in reality, if you’re making that little, all is taken in expenses.

You can’t live simple. You’re forced to live like all the mediocre people think life is supposed to be lived. You’re not supposed to ever read and look into your religion, and see if there’s problems with it. You’re not supposed to figure out what’s really going on in the world or politics. You’re not supposed to ever think about God, or any sort of philosophy of something bigger and greater than yourself. You’re not supposed to study the universe, and think of our big picture within it. You’re not supposed to read history, and see how things have played out in the past. (After all, that wonderful high school education takes care of that!).

Why can’t you be happy with a wife and kids, working some menial job? What’s with you Jason?

There’s no way around any of this. If you want to go down your own road, don’t expect it to be cleared and ready. You’ll have to slowly plow your way through with a hatchet.