Lobsters (Great Science Fiction Stories)

This is the first story in the author's Accelerando series. Manfred Macx comes up with ideas that will make strangers rich. He does this for free. In return he has virtual immunity from the tyranny of cash. There are drawbacks. The IRS is investigating him because they don't believe his lifestyle can exist without rackeetering. The Southern Baptists Conventions have denounced him as a minion of Satan. And his dominatrix left him for reason's he's unclear on.