Are you a domestic terrorist?

[kandrathe]

I think there are still many countries were that is possible. And a country with a better social security system might actually help (but I am not sure about this....) because somebody that fails once doesn't have to drop into poverty....so you can take some risks.

There are at least three factors you didn't consider, off the top of my head. 1) If as an employee, you cannot build enough start up capital due to competition for wages, or 2) due to high taxes, or 3) more easily fail due to excessive regulation on your new venture (e.g. rules for companies grow 20x once you hire your first employee).

Also (and this has been discussed here lately) nowadays many people that are not able to do much, and rather use large quantities of drugs can 'make it' because of the entertainment business.....a kind of reversed American dream you might say.

Did you ever read Aldus Huxley's, "Brave New World"? In that world, Soma is the opiate of the masses. But, you are really just proposing that Opium (and other entertainments) should be the opiate of the masses. Because productivity is turned over to either machines or a minority of *real* workers, the bulk of society can just binge themselves into oblivion with various forms of entertainment.