Papercool,
You are so right. This is why Internet Marketing and other niche marketing has become so popular! Anyone can pull up an acer of virtual real estate, create a product, advertise it for free, and make a decent profit. The only cost would be a domain (if your not using a free blog service like Blogger), a hosting cheap account, and possibly an autoresponder to collect subscribers to mail to later.
Can't beat that!
I know I started with nothing a few years back, and now have no worries at all - even in this economy.
