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It comes from combining traits. Power of course, if one were to lose power, for instance the power of one's testimony by being eg caught making false witness,

It comes from combining traits. Power of course, if one were to lose power, for instance the power of one's testimony by being eg caught making false witness, it is much harder to keep ahold of money without that credibility. They basically have to be in balance, money and power. And note power isn't negative, many people say the whole "absolute power corrupts absolutely" which comes from Lord Acton, note he's a member of a nobility. Power is necessary in order to do good, or to be righteous, it is not only over others, it is for others, to protect others as well. And further, it is the combination of, in one case for me, being good-looking and technical, keeping my agent in business by providing tech help nobody else could give him, when I was a model, none of the other guys was technical and I was very technical. Or...I don't know, music and coding, to make the score for a video game. There's many.

daniel-cussen 4y ago
So I'm not meaning to brag about being a model or technical, just matter-of-fact, it was a job like any other. In fact they alone cared nothing for gaps in my resume or bad GPA, just looks, very tolerant in that regard. So what happened is the guy who scouted me, my agent, lived in the same neighborhood, and we'd bump into each other a lot. He started his own thing after getting fired, took models with him. But he was bad at tech, and had a really busted computer with a defective screen. So I had a really old VGA desktop CRT monitor lying around, brought it over and it worked great, he could use the laptop. Then, he had to get this "factoring" thing to work, like an advance on payments and value-added taxes, it's a whole thing in Chile, I don't know much about it. Well I knew enough at the time to like figure it out spinally, do intuitive stuff just by feel and based on idiosyncrasies of Chilean web apps...I got it to work, it was weird. He got the advance! And then he stayed in business, and he told me over and over he owed me a favor. He would have been screwed, he said so himself.

daniel-cussen 4y ago

So I'm not meaning to brag about being a model or technical, just matter-of-fact, it was a job like any other. In fact they alone cared nothing for gaps in my resume or bad GPA, just looks, very tolerant in that regard. So what happened is the guy who scouted me, my agent, lived in the same neighborhood, and we'd bump into each other a lot. He started his own thing after getting fired, took models with him. But he was bad at tech, and had a really busted computer with a defective screen. So I had a really old VGA desktop CRT monitor lying around, brought it over and it worked great, he could use the laptop. Then, he had to get this "factoring" thing to work, like an advance on payments and value-added taxes, it's a whole thing in Chile, I don't know much about it. Well I knew enough at the time to like figure it out spinally, do intuitive stuff just by feel and based on idiosyncrasies of Chilean web apps...I got it to work, it was weird. He got the advance! And then he stayed in business, and he told me over and over he owed me a favor. He would have been screwed, he said so himself.