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What kind of aspie work ?!?!

Good on you for giving it your all, @Mary Anne! That is the best anyone can expect. We're in the same boat about money. Who was it that said, "A society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable people?" If we judge life in the United States by this criteria, we're a pretty awful country because we don't treat our most vulnerable very well at all.
 
One pillar of the problem: The widely held belief is that god hands out money, and if you don't have money, then god does not want you to have money. "If god is punishing you, then why would I help you, as my actions cannot compete with god's actions. Go figure out what to do so that god gives you nice things."

A second pillar of the problem: God is used as a Ponzi scheme. Due to organized religion being legally able to claim crazy stuff like "Give <the church> all your money, and god will make you rich!" You see you "plant" "seed" money, let god make it grow, and then reap the rewards.
 
Effort and pay are often not linked. I struggled working in a grocery store after high school. I am now working as an insurance agent, way less struggling, and it pays more. I worked as help desk in the past and that was also way less work than working at a grocery store.

Earning money though investing is crazy super stupid easy. Making money make money is what money does. Companies make money. Owning parts of a company that makes money makes you money if you own part of it. Some people with money often think that they are special, but nope, the money mostly does its own thing.

Something like 90% of fund managers could not beat the S&P 500. They get paid a whole lot not to do better than an average of the top 500 companies in America.

Finding how to get that money can be difficult. I tried hard over two years to get a masters in education degree, I had a 4.0 GPA, and I failed at it.

It also can be easy. Observing that Trump and the Republicans would buy war stuff, was a stupid crazy easy observation, and my 401(k) went up 40% last year.

Money don't care how hard you work.
 
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