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Anita thank you so much for your time. I want to answer the things you have asked about. First I have often worked for places where I do have direct contact with the owner. My last job I talked to him almost every day, that’s why I’m so shocked at my sudden termination as I never had any idea that he or any of my supervisors were in the least bit displeased with me or my work. As for people who seem happy and still get away with using others, I do know that happiness is in the eye of the beholder, I guess what I meant to say was that I see so any people who are mean, abusive and cruel to people around them but still seem to be happy, they have things that I don’t have that cause me stress not to have like a secure income and the things it provide like a safe home, time off to spend with friends and family and the resources to do things that at least seem to bring them pleasure. Yes I do get personal satisfaction for caring for my girlfriend and sister and others in my life I guess I just feel like the world is very unjust and I have a hard time seeing so many people who are using others not seem to face any consequences for those actions. And I agree with what you said about in nature animals only do things that have a Win-Win dynamic. I wish my life was that cut and dry but I find that I often get into relationships (personal and professional) where I am lead to believe that I am in a Win-Win only to find out I am being mislead, used and lied to, and again the people who do the lying and misleading get away with it. It use to be that your reputation mattered..If you divorced your wife for no reason and ran off with a stripper people thought poorly of you, they shunned you, it would affect people who then wouldn’t want to do business with you because you were a scum bag. If you ran a business that over and over mistreated its workers people who heard about it would stop using your business. Our society today is so lacking moral direction that we accept almost any type of behavior and never hold people accountable. So whats the reason to act in a way that is helpful to our society as a whole? Why give of yourself for the good of people around you? Why do any of the things I was raised being told are the “right” things to do to be a good man?