Yes I started many businesses. My personal experience matches my comment exactly. All the ventures where I created value didn't earn me anything, even though o

Yes I started many businesses. My personal experience matches my comment exactly. All the ventures where I created value didn't earn me anything, even though one of these ventures was very popular. I only started to earn passive income after I became laser-focused on making money and playing internal politics (I got involved in cryptocurrency). But even then, I could see people who were truly 'crony' succeed by producing even less value. Some people in my cryptocurrency community earn twice as much as I do and they produced absolutely nothing. On the other hand me and my team produced a lot of useful tools which would make waves if people knew about them but the project founders don't promote them. They pretend that me and my team don't exist. Not only did we get 0 funding from project founders in spite of constantly delivering quality products, the founders gave funding to blatant scam projects instead of us; almost as if to rub it in my face. The whole story is long and disturbing. Those people in my crypto community who have been following us closely are quite surprised about how we're being treated. Someone from community was so disillusioned by the situation, they donated $20k of crypto to me before quitting the project (yes someone felt so bad about my situation that they gave me $20k for free). At least it's all playing out in a very public way so I don't feel so alone. It's just very awkward. We also tried applying to various incubators and reaching out to investors (some outside of cryptocurrency space). Sometimes they seem excited about our project but they alway seem to back out at the last minute for seemingly no reason. It feels as if I'm blacklisted and the tech elite all talk among themselves to decide who to give funding to. Our team has a great track record in spite of never receiving any funding from any major investor so it doesn't make sense why investors are treating us so badly and it feels so coordinated. I used to get more opportunities in the past even though I was far less talented and than I am now and had very little track record. I think the problem is my online activism. I suspect all my online comments are liked back to my real identity somehow.