If you think you've got it so damn tough, try making a living in high tech, where your latest product goes obsolete in 9 months, the price you can charge goes down 20-30% every year and you can't stick excess inventory in some silo until things improve, because it'll be worthless this time next year. Cry me a river...
Yep, High tech it very competitive, and no doubt you have to work hard to stay on top. It's called competition. Not everyone has to have the latest piece of software or computer chip, but everyone still has to eat, Hank.
And Yes I did read Altas Shrugged, One of my favorite books.
I'm not whining; I find competition stimulative. I was trying to make the point that Big Stupid Government hasn't been bought off (yet) by Silicon Valley like it has by the Welfare Farmer lobby.