But for several decades we had a cheat code. We got paid a lot of money for doing interesting work solving valuable problems. We could quickly start businesse

But for several decades we had a cheat code. We got paid a lot of money for doing interesting work solving valuable problems. We could quickly start businesses with little investment, or work for corporations and earn a high upper middle class salary in comfortable working conditions and good benefits. We were incredibly fortunate, and it's sad to see it going away, even if we've been more fortunate than most people until now.