Unfortunately, the only solution to the problem for the masses of people is: there isn’t one.

There is.

Drop out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers

Don't be a bitch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitch_Wars

...and last but not least, treat the currency like a bacon cheeseburger in a synagogue and make sure none of your property is readily fungible. The 80s drug wars, and the continuance of policiing for profit, yields ample study on profiteering techniques. Your iPhone and sportscar are hot commodities; avoid them.

They will, as one has noticed, just start killing you. Highly-illegal guns are far less fungible.

We could just abandon the things of the regime, though. It is like pork.