At the age of 79, I have learned a lot. I was born during the war in Siberia USSR to Polish parents who were apolitical. My father spent time in a POW camp after the Germans invaded and in prison by the NKVD for trying to feed his family through barter.
From age 2 to age 12, I lived under a communist regime and learned that morality or loyalty were not a necessity, you just had to mouth them.
I came to Canada at age 12 and found that democracy is not that much different than Communism. You were not free in either system.
I excelled in high school and university and was in the top 3% in Ontario-wide exams. Because my parents were factory workers, I started working as a bookkeeper at age 15.
I was told in Poland that I will me send to Leningrad at age 18 to study to be a doctor and a girl in my class in Poland actually was sent to Leningrad. She came to Canada in 1973 and does cancer research.
At age of 25 I was an assistant controller for a Fortune 500 company. I found that to get to the top you had to squash anyone in your way. After a while I got tired of it and decided to study psychology and philosophy. I interned at a psychiatric institution and saw that it was all a sham and I would be making money and not helping anybody