A short spoken reflection on losing money that emphasizes the emotional/human cost more than the financial loss. The speaker describes frustration and disappointment with trusted people in their ecosystem who borrowed money and failed to repay, stressing a strict personal norm that borrowed funds (and agreed interest) must be repaid without renegotiation. The tone is personal and aggrieved.
And the hardest part for me about losing money is not the money part. It's the human part, the human element. I get discouraged on good people. They piss me off. I'm frustrated, I'm confused because my brain doesn't think like that. My personality is if you borrow it, you pay it back, period, no questions asked, no funny business. If you say 10%, it's 10%. It's not like try to renegotiate. I don't, I personally don't do that. So when people started doing that, the worst part is they just went blank and didn't pay. But, and these are people that were in my ecosystem for a very long time and I got, you know, one guy I gave a couple, couple million to another, again just a bunch of goofy, goofy investments and got sideways. And it's like that human element, like it really, that weighs on me more than anything.
