As a gamer and someone who's made enough money to retire ten times over I have to tell you it just ain't so.

What we all REALLY want is to feel like we're making a difference; that we're accomplishing something important.

The right career CAN give you that, and if its not you should consider a new one. I love games... but they are accomplishment porn.

The satisfaction is hollow compared to the real thing.

Hydrogen peroxide powered rocket packs fly for around 30 seconds, because they have a specific impulse of around 125, meaning that one pound of propellant can make 125 pound-seconds of thrust, meaning that it takes about two pounds of propellant for every second you are in the air. Mass ratios are low for anything strapped to a human, so the exponential nature of the rocket equation can be safely ignored.

A pretty hot (both literally and figuratively) bipropellant rocket could manage about twice the specific impulse, and you could carry somewhat heavier tanks, but two minutes of flight on a rocket pack is probably about the upper limit with conventional propellants.

However, an actual jet pack that used atmospheric oxygen could have an Isp ten times higher, allowing theoretical flights of fifteen minutes or so. Here, it really is a matter of technical development, since jet engines have thrust to weight ratios too low to make it practical. There is movement on this technical front, but it will still take a while.

John Carmack

Registrars play a huge part in keeping the internet safe.

How do you think phishing sites like c1tybank.com would get removed from DNS, or at least taken away from the scammers?

Not true. You may not be competent enough to tell what product will or won't work for you, but a bureaucrat is even less qualified to make those decisions for you. Government regulation in markets gives the illusion of safety but opens the door for corporate rent seeking and blocking competition in business more than it offers safety. The truth is isthat USA has grown the be a wealthy and safe place IN SPITE OF all the regulations we throw on business.

The smallest set of components you need to insure that food won't give you botulism is (1) you having the ability to sue a store that harms you by selling tainted food and (2) business being forced to show up front how much liability insurance they carry. That's it. The price of insurance, the cost of a lawsuit, and the sense of fairness of a jury will keep business honest and safe and responsible to a standard that will morph over time as business changes and people change and technology changes. Nothing more is needed to insure reasonable safety in any market and anything more gives businesses to game the rules seek rent.

Even with the growing quagmire of regulations in our country we still have fewer than most countries out there, and there by have grown economically faster than our peers but still far slower than we could have. Google "economic freedom index" for more.