David held a series of after-school jobs at fast-food joints, grocery stores and furniture warehouses, but work was merely a means of financing his experiments. Never an enthusiastic student, he fell behind in school, scoring poorly on state math and reading tests (he did, however, ace the test in science).
This is the type of individual who wants to learn what he wants to learn and is bored to tears by structured learning.
He is a Edison type of guy. His only problem is what he has decided to toy with is high dangerous and regulated.
One hundred years ago he would have no problems.
An MD in the 1920s was experimenting, probably with radium, in his practice.
Actually I think he is potentially more in the class of Tesla...
You are right in the New Corporate State there is no place for him...
He is a misfit and will suffer the consequence of our inability to protect those among us who just a few Generations ago would be recognized as Genius.
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