It&#x27;s nice to think that the universe is like the comics where all it takes is will power to bend Nature to your desires, but the reality is that if a job doesn&#x27;t pay at the level of the cost of living that job is pretty much crap. I don&#x27;t see how you and others like you assert this is a healthy situation for anyone. Especially when I&#x27;ve seen similar situations close to home in Kansas where you&#x27;re lucky to get paid 10&#x2F;hr (no benefits). Mind you, the cost of living is much lower than the national average but still 10&#x2F;hr doesn&#x27;t go very far in Kansas, especially if you have kids to feed. So, I&#x27;m not sympathetic to your &quot;lift yourself up by the bootstraps&quot; mentality when there&#x27;s not even bootstraps to lift yourself up by. Maybe you can enlighten us poor dumb folk from Kansas how to do this feat sans bootstraps. I&#x27;m all ears.