Edith

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I'll also say this as someone who grew up on the nice side of the barbed wire fences and high gates in the very nice part of town where the Nigerian 0.1% live - learn to touch grass and worry about yourself because rich people really do not care about you. Like, at all. The Nigerian rich don't even like each other. They barely tolerate one another and make practical alliances to preserve wealth and influence. And now that the economy is too small to support all the children of the Nigerian 0.1%, nearly everyone I grew up with in the nice, leafy part of town now lives in Toronto or London or wherever. You, Mr N250k/month Union Bank contract staff are not part of rich people's thinking at all. At. All. The rich have no plans for you. They have no plans to create opportunities for you. They have no plans to fix the things they broke on their way to building that N1bn townhouse in Parkview Estate. They have no plans to contribute towards making society better. If Satan came from Hell with a tail and horns growing out of his head and he ran for political office, the rich would all go make deals with him - because in the world of the rich, the only thing that matters is their own interests, and making sure that they never, EVER have to live like you or next to you. So all this simping and vicarious fawning over wealth and fame that you people do everyday is the most redundant thing in the world - the rich have no intention of expanding their circle to let you in, and they have no intention of enabling the conditions for you to create your own independent circle of wealth. The only thing the rich need from you is to be poor and obedient, so that your labour can be cheap, plentiful and replaceable. Statistically as a Nigerian, you will NEVER be rich or close to it. You will NEVER live in Maitama. 99.99% of Nigerians who have existed since 1960 have prayed and fantasised about becoming rich, and 99.99% of those prayers and fantasies never came true. That's just math. You will never be a rich and famous celebrity. You will never be a successful content creator. You will never make millions shilling crypto, trading Forex, sports betting, or whatever the fuck is the latest quick wealth fantasy in town. It's just not going to happen. That being the case, a much more constructive use of your time would be to fight for the material elevation of what you actually have, where you actually have it. Instead of daydreaming about the N300m house in Lekki that 3 generations of your family cannot buy, get involved in a local effort to give your own immediate neighbourhood a facelift, or a political campaign to pressure the state to build high quality social housing. If you hate being harassed without consequence online, instead of vicariously enjoying how a celebrity has used their wealth and influence to jail someone for making a horrid tweet, fight for a judiciary and legal system that is transparent and accessible to all, so that a singer living in the UK on a global talent visa doesn't get to have more access to your Nigerian justice system than you who lives in Nigeria 24/7. Instead of building your mental architecture around the false idea of being a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" who will someday take your rightful place on Banana Island, touch grass tonight and accept that it will never happen, and what you need to do instead is fight for where you are to become a better, more liveable place that you no longer wish to escape from. Stop cosplaying as rich folk. Stop cooing and fawning over rich folk. Stop daydreaming about someday "blowing up" and buying a house next to Burna Boy. Rich people have no intention of sharing their world with you. Free yourself from the tyranny of living vicariously through people who don't care that you exist. Them no really send any part of your papa at all.

@jayhemz Okay

@Eiidith_ Sometime soon. But let him follow closely

Not his fan but he makes a fair point here. Which is that, simplifying the content of tax reforms is key in engendering trust amongst the populace. He makes very weird analogies tho lmao

The very best on the list is a Female.

Life is so private and lately, I wish to live in my dreams. My dreams are full of activities than my physical life at the moment.

@jayhemz Well said.

There's a stage you'll get to in your career that you should stop posting personal laurels. In fact, if you should post about what you achieved, let it be things you did 4-5 years ago. Why? At a particular career stage, posterity judges you by how you give back to (younger) people coming up behind you, not what YOU earned. Imagine Tony Elumelu posting about an organization nominating him for this or that with some cheap plaques? Lol, his assistant receives those things and keeps them in some shelf at his back office. What have you given back? That should be your GLORY.

@Emiola_martian @the_popemichael Where can one learn this, asking for my younger brother.

@the_popemichael Here, if you reskill and you're exceptional at it, you also have a good chance of blowing up. The issue as you have stated is that reskilling is tech focused here. Excavator and Doza operators for one of our contractors earn up to ₦500k per month. That's a skill, too.

The problem with this is that it's too tech-focused. This problem is a global issue. Except ours is more chronic. In France, the number of arts and social science graduates exceeds the technical graduates. Same in Germany. Now, they're also rolling out reskilling programs to match the economy needs. The other difference is the jobs exist, so when you reskill, you'd almost surely get a job. Here, if you reskill, sadankata e niyen mehn.

@_jboflagos @hackSultan And you made it sound like “he's making the money and others are making noise.” You are not a person of true words and can't be trusted with what you just put out. Whatever reason made you make that post shows that you lack substance within you.

Don’t you think that if someone can lie about a shoe being one-of-one and end up producing 100 pieces, they can absolutely lie about selling out or the price too?

@leyeConnect If you don't mind, are you the first child? 🌚

My problem is that I always want to do everything and be in control of the outcome.

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I just had a deja vu moment 🥹

@leyeConnect @Babajiide Seconded! From my experience volunteering to mentor students on product design careers, a community created by @darasoba has sharpened my skills, and the impact I've made makes life fulfilling for me.

@Babajiide I really need people to orient their perspective correctly. If you give your 100% to a company regardless of their culture and whether they are deserving, you are still the one that benefits. Your skill, grit, contribution and impact are rungs for your professional ladder.

Again this isn’t the way to look at it ! One thing you get from every job is the skill ! That is one thing no founder can take from you. Your skill and work ethics. Don’t ever let the job environment dictate how you show up.

Seconded! From my experience volunteering to mentor students on product design careers, a community created by @darasoba has sharpened my skills, and the impact I've made makes life fulfilling for me.

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