I guess I may be developing a much more "warrior" based mindset regarding cash. And maybe I resisted it cuz, I wanted to believe people were decent (I'm sure they are, just not when in a pinch, cuz most are p#ssies).
I'm going through a similar transformation, but mine has a different tone to it than yours.
Yours seems bitter, disappointed, hardened.
I'm noticing the same things you are, but my attitude is much more pleasent. I'm seeing such things as amusing.
It may have to do in difference of base personality types and world view, maybe personal experiences that colored us...
My new outlook is hard to explain. I've begun to feel more like a sly, confident, and relaxed father. I've begun to treat the world the same way such a man would treat a child.
"Yeahyeahyeah, I know all the tricks in the book, I've been through it myself, now cut the shit and eat your damn broccoli"
My entire life has taken on this attitude of amusement at the pussies and liars and thieves around me. Maybe it's because I know that I will not let them affect me, or maybe it's because I've been through my fare share of being dishonest myself before I worked my way past it, so in a way I am a more mature version of the amateurs around me.
Or maybe I'm too close to the situation to accurately see what's going on in my own damn head.
But why all the anger. good sir?
Yeah, people are bad, horrible, dishonest, liars.
That's just who they are. It's like being angry that beavers build dams or that clouds bring us rain.
People are who they are, and you know better than to let it alter your course.