Says the cancer patient who could become unable to work and end up dependent on social insurance at basically any time… the only difference between us is our disabilities. Yours is physical, mine is Asperger’s or similar, which makes it unlikely for me to be able to hold down non-academic full-time work long-term.

We’re both creating our own “welfare” programs to deal with the future. You should be rejoicing that taxes on HFT people are going up — it will put more funds into Medicare and Medicaid if you’ll need it.