I am impressed by the writing of Jim Carrol regarding the great human waste of talent. Unrecognized talent and ability happens due to a collective ignorance based on a societal idea of what is normal.

What is normal is what is normal to that individual. This is where delusions can grow in fertile soil for society on one hand and the individual on the other.

As for money we seem to have a sliding scale of ethics regarding getting money, in fact ethics becomes a flexible spandex that fits big and small.
Small amounts of of money like lost coins are exempt. then there is a middle ground of an amount of money that must be ethically accounted for. Finally a vast sum of wealth beyond comprehension is again untethered from ethics in my opinion. A trilion and a half givaway to corporations could be an example.

I know a person who personally knows Soros and it seemed to my friend that George is of average intelligence and an above average sense of propriety.

Trump has no sense except to lie and bully. However he is a quick study, he recently learned that Lincoln was a Republican