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Or we could, you know, just give them meth. Seriously, this is just more blowback from the failed war on drugs. If would-be tweakers could buy their fix for about the cost of a pack of cigarettes from the local Wal-Mart, they'd quickly wreck or check themselves without having to prostitute or steal. Or, hell, since they've got so much ambition, we could give the meth away but only after the tweaker successfully solved the next in a long series of math problems of gradually increasing complexity. We'd have a bunch of Paul Erdös clones before you know it.

In addition to talent and passion, Erdos had a secret weapon... amphetamines!!!

Not jobs, JFK: http://amphetamines.com/john-kennedy.html

I'm surprised to see no mention in the comments of Paul Erdos (the 'o' with two dots on top, but Slashdot seems not to be in unicode), one of the most important mathematicians of the century, who might have been responsible for the definition of a mathematician as a machine for turning coffee into theorems. He took Benzedrine or Ritalin almost every day for the last twenty five years of his life. His description of his inability to produce mathematics without these drugs has the fascinating implication that the current state of the mathematical landscape would be noticeably different had they not been available to him

Um no he was addicted to Meth.

he was having like multiple daily injections from his private doctor and THATS why he lost the war.

Um, don't fighter pilots take speed?