Okay, I admit it. I'm depressed.

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anandamide
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24 Jul 2006, 10:16 am

First of all, I do believe that rich people think differently about money and ethics than poor people do. I know this because my aspie partner comes from some wealth and he constantly amazes me with his view on finances. I also feel breathtaken by the complete disregard for community and ethics he describes to me that his family has. Its true that their ethics are compromised and they dont really do the good things for the planet that they claim to do. From what I can see their lives are based on lies.

Secondly, I have tried business ventures in the past with what little money I could raise. Guess what? My social niavete makes it so that I am crap at doing business ventures. Were talking CRAP. I couldnt sell water to people who were dying of thirst. Trust me on this one.

I do have one talent. Im trying to use that to accomplish my goals. So I do have hope. I am not completely in despair.

What threw me about the women I posted above about is that they arent necessarily very nice people. Yet, according to the standards of our culture they both have positions that give them authority and power. They are respectable and icons of success in every way. And they achieved this because they have social skills enough to pull it off.

The question I have is not whether or not to sell my soul t the devil, it is a different question entirely. The question is if a person does not have the social skills to make it by selling out then does that make that person a better person than the people who do sell out?