I have never received support for my efforts over 15-20 years and am not holding my breath in an inferior realm such as this one.
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward...Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man. The State does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely.
Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle, 1863