Sorry Grauenstadt, but "surrendering" some of " your personal freedom and dignity" and letting "them run your life in egregious minutiae" is what most of us do to hold a job, get a mortgage or rent an apartment, or much of anything we do as part of an ordered society.  Not that it is ideal, but if you want any financial or material compensation,  it comes with strings attached and we have to decide the balance we're willing to live with.  Everything in life comes with costs.  If they want aid then they have to expect to give up something just like the rest of us.