That alcohol and I can't be friends. Nor can I "have just one drink".

>and how has that changed you?

I'm healthier and am no longer drinking several fifths a week so saving money.

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In the past year and a half I've also realized that those with the means to really make change in the world are largely full of hot hair, hopium and unrealistic demands/desires:

Individuals love to talk about poverty, hunger, unclean water, while they sit on billions and even trillions of dollars. The Giving Pledge has over a trillion dollars of net worth pledged, go randomly look at what some of the individuals have pledged money are actually doing... funding cryptocurrency projects (Brian Armstrong, GiveGrypto), funding anti-bullying (MacKenzie Bezos, Bystander Revolution), politics (MacKenzie Bezos, With Honor, a nonpartisan organization working to increase the number of veterans in political office), funding post-grad education at Cambridge (David and Claudia Harding, $130 million donation to a school with a 6.441 billion GBP endowment...).

Investors for example want unreal returns. YC for example wants to give you a six figure check in hopes of you becoming a billion dollar company within a handful of years. This is not my opinion and can be found by reading their various material and statements from those in charge.

Investors will fund insane-sounding things, some of which are quite laughable to anyone outside of the bay area, such as (randomly taken from https://yclist.com/ ):

- Poppy 'Poppy makes it easy for parents to find high quality childcare with just a text' While I'm not a parent, I'm not going to just fire off a text for child care. I'm going to want to meet multiple people, I'm going to check mycase for my state to see what sort of legal trouble they may have had, I'm going to go through their social media feeds, I'm going to want to talk to references...

- Basically all of the blockchain companies. The Bitcoin network alone uses an insane amount of electricity, more than some first-world nations and has yet to gain any sort of adoption aside from speculators. Even the companies that accept cryptocurrencies don't do the bulk of their business via them.

- Flock 'makes wireless security systems for neighborhoods'. Good luck trying to get neighborhoods to agree on something, even those with HOAs.

- Gameday 'Play fantasy sports with friends on Facebook Messenger' basically "let's make money off of another platform before regulation or changes by that platform put us out of business".

- Leon & George 'Buying and owning indoor potted plants made easy'... or you could go to Target or Walmart and buy a potted plant.

- Origin 'Keurig for healthy smoothies.' It takes a minute to throw some produce into a blendtec/vitamix, blend, pour into your container of choice and rinse the pitcher out...

- Yoshi 'Gas delivered to your car so you never have to go to the gas station again.' what... I drive by like 5 gas stations on the way to work, and again on the way back, and don't have to sit around waiting for someone to deliver gas to my car... I can stop if the price has drastically gone up but one station still has cheap, or you know... when I need gas and have 3 minutes to spare.