Pathetic, truly pathetic. Such fine-grained parsing of the law is always indicative of some sort of hand-waving going on. The older I get, the more I understand

Pathetic, truly pathetic. Such fine-grained parsing of the law is always indicative of some sort of hand-waving going on. The older I get, the more I understand of the true meaning of "if you're not a conservative after 40, you have no brains". Society fundamentally runs off power and money; ideals are a smokescreen and anyone with any sense understands this. Full disclosure (i.e. my ranting): I recently have had to deal with a situation involving a non-profit sort of outfit I was involved in. The PR/media person on the BoD who has always been the public face of the organization deliberately drove the rest of us nuts with his abuse for months, resulting in one of volunteers quitting (even though she wasn't the target). In response the rest of us resigned in some attempt to make this guy see reason. (Mistake 1: never empathise with the psychopathic, we all thought he was under stress due to some personal stuff of his) Later I found out he'd accepted kickbacks from a commercial company the org had promoted to its members and now he has a personal financial interest in the companies the org 'promotes' as part of its work around medicinal cannabis. Kids' Company writ small, to be honest. And the law is badly equipped to deal with such shady stuff - and now the Supreme Court has essentially ok'ed such practices... This fool is threatening to sue me and another director for nonsensical reasons because he's been thwarted and his ego desires have not been fulfilled. It was all the same sort of nonsense that one sees all the time in start-ups and companies in general. I met someone who had a lot more experience in the NGO type space after this and she told me it is a common story - people's egos and power tripping being more important than carrying out the goals. I really am starting to loathe humanity at some level; all these ideals that are blathered about are not that hard to achieve once you let go of the ego and power/dominance factor. But capitalism at its core nowadays is corrupt....