Everyone Has a Price: The Heartbreak of Realizing Most People Will Sell Their Souls

The General's Briefing · Mar 28, 2026 · 19m

I woke up this morning exhausted. Not the kind of tired that sleep can fix. But the kind of tired that comes from disappointment. The kind of tired that comes from realizing something you didn't want to believe.

I woke up this morning and I realized: Most people have a price.

I've been doing community work my entire adult life. Educating my people. Putting us in spaces we've never been. Organizing events. Building coalitions. Fighting for justice. And I thought—I really thought—that the people I was working with shared my values. I thought we all had a little good in us. I thought we all had…