[jerf]

"I think the interface between IP markets and the goods/services markets is deeply broken."

Potentially a bigger problem than any you cite is discoverability. So she has a patent... so what? No company out there is going to search over the patents looking for a good idea. If they manage to come up with an independent implementation of something that happens to hit the patent, and they happen to do a search, they're far more likely to modify the idea until it doesn't hit the patent than to go try to license it from an individual.

There really isn't any fixing the problem that there's no path that looks like "1. Have idea. 2. Patent idea. 3. Profit." Step three is going to have to look like a business. Even if you assume basic income and even if you somehow remove money from the situation entirely, which is to put it least incredibly idealistic, if you want to see "success" you're still going to have to hustle and build awareness. (And, apparently, do this on the same basic income as everybody else in that ideal world, which won't exactly make it easier to stand out.) Perfectly feasible with the right use of social media, but on average it won't happen just by putting up a post of your idea and waiting for the plaudits to roll in.