You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
People keep asking who's going to man the grills, pick the crops, clean the houses when all the illegals get deported. We have lots of useless government paid parasites that could fill those jobs nicely. They're educated, speak English and currently produce nothing but obstacles.
All of a man's problem stem from his inability to sit quietly in his room. So you're not wrong, but of course you want him to go out and look for trouble, so you're not right either.