other than moving to a gulch... yes, pretty much.
I spent about 20 yrs doing 65-100 hr weeks and when i found out 65% of the fed budget went directly to other people as a redistribution of my weekly efforts... I just couldn’t take it any longer and quit.
I was hoping the country would wake up at the last election, unfortunately it seems the looters have just gotten worse.
Very few people that I know who are “wealthy” made it working for someone else. They are mostly independent business persons.
I believe much of that is because the govt takes so much of “wage” income.