I appreciate you asking clarifying questions about all of this. I'll do my best to explain the angle I'm coming from...
Our mindsets rule our lives. We live our lives playing out the truths, morals & understandings that we hold to be true, whether they are known "mindsets" or more insidious covert, subconscious beliefs. What they are or their relation to "reality" has no matter, if we believe it, it's true for us.
What do I mean by this?
Have you ever known a woman who likes to begrudgingly complain that "There are no good men! All men are dogs!".... What does she continuously encounter & attract? Shitty men. Define shitty however you want: unfaithful, abusive, unreliable, whatever, it doesn't matter. She only encounters poor quality men because that's the only thing that she believes exists. She becomes her own self-fulfilling prophecy & no one can help her until she detaches her reality from that erroneous & detrimental belief. She would not recognize a good man if you placed one in front of her.
The same can be said for men who only see "gold diggers" .... there is no convincing them that there are quality women out there. They will only see & interpret every action or word through their tainted lens of "all women are users & not to be trusted" ..... the end result is a very lonely man who doesn't understand why he can't find a partner. It has nothing to do with the reality of the availability of good women, but everything to do with his deeply held truth that there are no good women.
You have stated in quite a few ways that you believe the only path to the life you want (entrepreneurial independence & freedom or wealth) is to screw people over or behave in other unscrupulous ways. You have stated this repeatedly in this thread before we began discussing it directly.
Since you walked out on the RE investor who was trying to screw over Grandman, I can only surmise that you have a strict moral code of ethics that money will not entice you to cross. This is great, I love this & wish more people operated this way.
So how does this impact your current situation?
You believe that the only way to achieve wealth is to screw over people for personal gain.
You won't screw over people for personal gain due to your intrinsic moral compass.
Ergo, you will never achieve wealth with your current mindsets.
Those of us who have different mindsets understand that the only true way to achieve what you want is to benefit as many people as possible by solving their problems or pain points that hold them back. Providing solutions to the problems of the highest number of people is what gets you to where you want to be. But if you can't see it that way, you won't even see the opportunities before you because at a deeper level, you don't believe they exist.
You will always sabotage yourself & your endeavors because you are trying to hold two diametrically oppositional beliefs at the same time (I want to create wealth & I want to be a good person). They can't co-exist within you currently.
So you choosing to find examples of ethical & helpful companies is THE ONLY THING that will get you out of your defeating loop of erroneous beliefs. You need to find examples of companies that benefit the customer for yourself.
Nothing will change for you until you address the underlying software that you're running on your operating system. It's just that simple. THAT is how my suggestions will benefit you.
And if you don't believe me, just do it for a week to spite me. One week of legitimate effort. Legitimate.
And if it doesn't start shifting some things, then come back here & tell me that you told me so.
