@SamuelAnders I was in my early 30s when my old boss died and, fed up working at dysfunctional companies, started my own on a shoestring. (Auto repair. ) What I had going for me was strong niche knowledge and talent, and a clientele that liked and trusted my "product. " Honestly, being the boss/owner can become all consuming of your life and time. The independence and autonomy, come at unstinting demands upon you. If you have the talent, drive, and importantly, shipping product, it can all be more rewarding than a life as a cog in someone else's machine. Being the boss, isn't all sitting back watching others do all the work while you count and bank all this fuck-you level of money rolling in. I can't offer much about the model of investors and lead time for development. Investors don't fork over money and hide, they bring demands of input on the products and development. Investors can come at a cost to your autonomy. All these caveats aside, if you have the vision and drive to make it work, it's inevitable you will forge your way in to actualizing these into a working enterprise. NGL, long days at Starfucks, is a fantasy holding pattern, nothing at all the life you have once you jump into the entrepreneur game for real.

@Typo-MAGAshiv you're missing my fundamental point, that Rush fell out of the fundamental attribution error tree and hit every branch of it on the way down; and reinforced and baked this into American Right Wing culture, to the advantage of his ratings but to the harm of right culture's capacity for empathy and compassion, on the condition of individuals' membership in their conservative tribe. There's the actor-observer bias, where your personal and tribal tribal foibles get dismissed as circumstantial and reactive, while those of the entire outgroup get attributed to intrinsic and intractable moral and character flaws.
This reinforced and metastasized the reflex to presume everyone on "the Left" is irrational and unreachable to their core, acting as a thought and effort terminating barrier to understanding the positions and their underlying reasons of everyone outside the ingroup of conservative Republicans.

A comorbidity is the Just World hypothesis where everyone outside the ingroup bubble inherently "deserves " bad circumstances that befall them, while hypocritically carving out special exemptions for Ingroup members. Rush declared repeatedly that he was possessed of "talent on loan from God " which reinforces this bias.

So no, I absolutely do NOT have a solitary mitigating fuck to give Limbaugh, who KNEW Doctor Shopping in conspiracy with a third party personal assistant was illegal, and did it anyway to get The Precious opioids, rather than seek help through legitimate channels that were available to him at the 99th percentile of the population at large due to his massive wealth.

Yet a large measure of his shtick, was to brook NO such humanizing compassion for the masses, that their shortcomings and foibles weren't forgivable due to external circumstances like a legal and medical system stacked against their favor and corrupt players within that, but PERSONAL flaws they held full agency over but casually CHOSE the less ethical options.

This conversation seems particularly poignant, happening in this community given the premium we supposedly place on personal agency.