<I suspect that the skills learned here can be used for a long time to improve the game, multiply the returns, and generally live off the kindness of the good earth without backbreaking labour<>
Thank goodness for people like you Jay, who are willing to struggle for years to learn the skills necessary to correctly allocate capital. The world depends on capitalists to mind the world's capital. If everyone was lazy and did back-breaking labour, it would be very primitive labour. Any selfish, lazy, slob can just do some pleasant physical work, then sleep soundly each night. It takes dedication to assume the mantle of protector of the process and the associated worry, as you have done.
Those who fail in their attempts to be protectors of the process are ignominiously cast aside as failed capitalists, losing all their efforts and becoming recyclable detritus of the eons-long evolutionary process.
There should be awards for such valiant endeavour. I suppose most people think the huge profits awarded to the successful capitalists are sufficient reward, but some appreciation would be in order too. Surviving the horrors of combat deserves more than mere monetary reward.
There are tombs for the unknown soldier, parades, and honorary days, but none for the unknown capitalist, who might merely have been unlucky, although talented, knowledgeable and courageous.
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