The Best Investment
Authors note: The best investment is people. People come with their own baggage of personality and character. Being too nice invites cruelty. Dale Carnegie 's book on " How to Win Friends and Influence People " is now a manual on manipulation, flagged up by every scam alert watchdog. You either have friends from school, or colleagues who care enough about you... otherwise you're bound to be alone. It isn't so bad being alone, except people in the West misjudge this feature as a sign of psychopathology. It's not good to vent, it's not good to put everything on social media, pretend everything is okay. Always! People, Loneliness, and the Ties That Bind in Old Age . The best investment is people. But let's dive deeper into this. In a world obsessed with connections— LinkedIn networks, Facebook friends, Instagram followers—we've commodified relationships. Yet, the psychology behind human bonds reveals a more nuanced picture. Investing in people isn...