Part of the challenge is society has organized the distribution of certain rewards and necessary services for playing along with the system.
For example - healthcare insurance. Generally a nightmare to secure unless you're with a large company or in a demographic group which statistically probably needs little beyond accident coverage.
Want to be a maverick? Better be a high earning one, since you're going to pay a fortune for a bunch of little things and get locked away from the rewards for being a top level corporate servant....
A long time ago, I spent the summer at my university where I was a mathematics major. I needed a job to pay for groceries, so I took a part time copy editing job at the math journal.
We got at least one "whack job" paper a week. Bear in mind this was when the internet was first getting traction, so I knew some of these guys from usenet…
For example - healthcare insurance. Generally a nightmare to secure unless you're with a large company or in a demographic group which statistically probably needs little beyond accident coverage.
Want to be a maverick? Better be a high earning one, since you're going to pay a fortune for a bunch of little things and get locked away from the rewards for being a top level corporate servant....