"Do not base your entire livelyhood at the mercy of anybody but yourself, and especially not a huge corporation." This seems to apply to a vast, vast majority

"Do not base your entire livelyhood at the mercy of anybody but yourself, and especially not a huge corporation." This seems to apply to a vast, vast majority of the population... In our little tech/entrepreneur bubble, we're the exception, not the rule, in that we can generate income largely by ourselves.