Competition, survival, and polarity

[Diana]

There are plenty of people like authors and videogame programmers who become millionaires just by putting out their own creativity.

It often seems like shoving someone out of the way is the only way to success but that's just the way it looks on the surface.

I know authors, app game programmers, and app game business owners. Unfortunately, it isn't as simple as you make it out to be. The publishing industries have changed significantly in the last couple of decades. If you don't market your product—and you must compete with others who are spending big on marketing—it gets lost in a sea of many millions of self-published products, however good it might be. There are exceptions of course.

With online aggregate companies such as Fivver, the value of creative services had been driven way, way down. 

I don't mean to be negative, just practical, and tell it the way it is. I get the idea about "creating your own reality." But I have been working for myself since the late 80s, and I have seen the way things have changed since self-publishing became available, and the Internet grew. 

This is not to say one has to cave into STS practices in order to be successful. I am interested to hear from others how they surmount the current state of business affairs. I would like to hear from anyone in the trenches, making it on their own.

It's difficult sometimes to accept that seeking peace is the better route when you see examples of military lords with tremendous wealthy and property for example who will never suffer through consequences of having signed up to kill their enemies while a lot of innocent minded people don't get the wealth, meaning they don't get the women, and as a result don't develop families but I remind myself that being violent usually at the end of the day is not something a good person signs up for. There are other ways to enrich yourself.

I would like to point out that the bolded above reflects very limited thinking. I am assuming it wasn't well thought out, because it sounds not only sexist, but archaic. While it appears that there are many women (the majority perhaps) in this world who are seeking rich men to support them, there are also women who have more awareness, integrity, and self-accountability than that.  And wanting to be with a woman who is shallow and unevolved is something I really don't get, unless the man wanting such is as shallow and unevolved.