Today we introduce another special guest, Anthony, who works with Catholic solopreneurs.We discuss how focusing on the bottom line and neglecting the other aspects of your work or personal life affects your family. We then compare it to a factory manager who went above and beyond to take care of his workers."Greed can take on different names to match whatever our insecurity is."We discuss the example of the monks who make Chartreuse, and the people who make Subarus. Rather than expand to meet a brief increase in demand, these organizations decided to focus on quality."You don't have to react to everything you see."We then discuss my motivation for teaching technicians - Yes, one of the priorities is making money, but primarily it's to give people a rewarding career helping the public. The money comes later! This is pretty much the opposite of the IT industry's routine of making money their primary goal, and pushing unneeded products and services on people.Now, instead of milking a handful of people for recurring fees, I fix things once and for all, and now I have thousands of clients."The bottom line isn't everything."He also explains that companies actually look for popular web searches, and decide to support whatever cause is popular, rather than standing up for what's right."Brutal."Finally, we discuss an article where the explain that people buy things compulsively and keep up with the latest and greatest perhaps because they just want to be loved, and erroneously believe that they'll only be loved if they buy or do certain things."There's a lot to unpack here."Indeed there is.(Sorry about the slight echo! Technology is garbage.)

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