Who trusts a failed businessman (with many, many failures to his name) to navigate the businesses of others with a failing trade war?

There is no one else to trust but myself. It is hard to successfully lie to yourself. rather than trust others, I ask myself if I can trust my own judgement in the situation or with those people. The people that you have known the longest can turn on you as quickly as a stranger. Three months as a hostage taught me that. I knew them longer than almost anyone and gave them my trust. They took me hostage for my disability check and lost my trust. I had no way out in the countryside of obtaining help so I had to choose between playing safe and remaining hostage or to trust my own self, formulate an escape that would not result in my death by 12 gauge shotgun. I was a cripple on foot hours away from any town.