a study of my prejudice

I need to work on my underlying prejudices, but maybe I will be carrying them for life, because I am not done with the work which aligns with these prejudices.

1. I am of the notion that people who struggle to stay alive are stupid. (I am stupid too, but at least I am aware of it.)

1.1. Partly I attribute this to people not having a grasp of the context of their environment, so they fall back to animal programming. ( Animal programming is a given, but one should develop the capability to think it on and off, based on available information. Of course, all of that is part of being an animal. Some animals are just smarter than others, to paraphrase a children's book.)

1.2. People who are generally like this tend to be in business, so I am unfortunately prejudiced to believe that being in business is the mark of a stupid person.

1.3. Corporate life is generally working for businesspeople or being paid by businesspeople to do non-business work, e.g., politics, war, art, sport, and charity, so all of these people fall into my domain of prejudice. 

2. I have been aware of my prejudices, but maybe my choice of how to deal with them has not been ideal. 

2.1. My plan as a teenager, was to live with, work with, and study in the most thorough way, all the stupid people above, in order to be able to maximally appreciate their ways of life. 

2.2. In my 20s and 30s, I executed this plan to the best of my ability, despite limited interest. 

2.3. The execution was intrinsically rewarding, but it did not improve my liking for these people. If anything at all, I have been constantly reminded in every interaction for 20 years about how dumb most people are. 

Now on sabbatical, I have some freedom to review my work. That is what I am writing about this minute.