In august 2008 i was still (shudder) working at a bank.
Everything was so hopeful before 2012, and before 2016...
My what naive children we all were, weren't we?
You were actually conscious during the latter part of the 80s. i was born in '85 myself. still, I remember having to deal with insufferable wastes of air like that old boss of yours. i don't know if i'll get to see future excerpts from your situation back then, so please spoil me: did that boomer sack of shit ever actually get canned like he deserved?
my gut suggests, depressingly, that younger and newer people were sacrificed to appease him even though they've done more to help and less to harm in their time there than his entire 'career', and that he never saw accountability, just getting to sail off into the sunset happily ever after because there is no justice in this universe that we do not carve out with our own bare claws.
but sometimes i wonder if russia is actually so overleveraged on their invasion that ukraine might have actually been able to march right into moscow and wipe it off the map if they tried.
I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less to pay more to compensate actual human beings doing actual work and I'm not kidding.
I think JJJ would've paid Peter more if he arranged for pictures that made Spider-Man look more creepy and morally questionable. JJJ probably feels suspicious of all those "heroic" angles.
You stopped being a bad person when you grew sufficient empathy to feel bad about what you did.
But your debt is not paid.
Consider the bad person you no longer are as though they were a dependent in your charge. Everything they did is, rightly, an embarrassment of who you presently are.
You will continue to be a good person as long as you work to make up for the things that your past self did.
Not out of guilt, though:
Out of gratitude that you're no longer that person.
Those "people" would better serve as fertilizer (specifically for trees)