20 year conclusion : commerce is fascinating, but business people are boring

I have made a point to hang out with business people for 20 years now. Looking back, my understanding of them has not improved at all. They are as felicitous about money, as they are oafs about everything that is unaffected by it. Thus I already understood them before I began this study.

I have learnt, and continue to learn, about local business practices, and global economic conditions. But there is hardly anything to be learnt about business people, because mostly they are mutts. They follow first, the animalistic preferences for food, comfort, kin, and pack. But if you ask them what they understand or how they perform without these things, it is rarely nuanced.

I wish I knew smarter people. Sometimes I wonder if they exist. But generally, I go with the WAP : if I'm like this, there are probably lots of other people like me whom I simply haven't met yet, since I don't go about prioritising the effort to find them.