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One of the saddest parts of the hustle culture is that if you don't make it, there will be no evidence that you tried.

PETROL AFFORDABILITY: NIGERIA, USA, AND UK (Comparison based on 40-hour workweek minimum wage) Monthly Minimum Wage: 🇬🇧UK — $2,813 🇺🇸USA — $1,255 🇳🇬Nigeria — $52 Price of Petrol (per Liter): 🇳🇬Nigeria — $0.882 🇺🇸USA — $1.075 🇬🇧UK — $1.874 Petrol Purchasing Power (Liters per Month): 🇬🇧UK — 1501 Liters 🇺🇸USA — 1167 Liters 🇳🇬Nigeria — 59 Liters Cost of one 50L tank vs Monthly Wage: 🇬🇧UK — 3.3% 🇺🇸USA — 4.2% 🇳🇬Nigeria — 84.8% Nigeria recorded the lowest pump price at $0.882 per liter on March 16. It also had the lowest affordability of the three countries. A 50-liter tank cost $44.10, which was 84.8% of the Nigerian monthly minimum wage. In the UK and USA, a full tank took less than 5% of a worker's monthly income. Minimum wage earners in the UK could buy 1,501 liters of fuel per month. Nigerian workers could afford 59 liters. #Statisense (Global Petrol Prices, 16th March 2026)

And one major problem with knowing too much or seeing things clearly is that you lose the ability to participate in certain illusions that make life easier for everyone else.

🚨 Simulation Theory: The Double Slit Experiment proves particles act like waves until observed then they snap into particles. What if our reality only "renders" when we're looking, just like a video game optimizing resources? Check out this episode from The Why Files breaking it down, tying it to Simulation Theory. Are we in a sim? This could be the key to unlocking the true nature of existence! The Why Files video did a great job on explaining the Double Slit Experiment & Simulation Theory What do YOU think—real or rendered? Drop your thoughts below!

@donamarahp Open $HOT P2P without listing on exchange just as you did for Gonka. Users want to trade the mined token. Collect trading fees and increase revenue = attract investor's interest. Let them come talk to you when the volume goes up, not you looking for them with 30M inactive wallets

Every partner, investor, and exchange we talk to asks the same thing: DAU with $100+, average swap size, etc Nobody asks how many wallets were created. Food for thought. 😉

@ricardotosatt A closer is a sales person. You don't save a failing start-up with anything other than more sales and better negotiations

Your startup is failing. One hire to save everything. A vibe coder An AI expert A relentless closer Make your choice.

Many years ago the government provided portable drinking water. Then the supply became unreliable. People complained… nothing changed. Eventually we all got used to it and started digging our own boreholes. Then electricity became the problem. First we bought generators. Now solar panels are popping up on rooftops everywhere. Security? People now pay for private guards, vigilantes, gated estates, CCTV and alarms. Slowly, quietly, Nigerians have become the providers of the very basics a government is supposed to guarantee: Water. Power. Security. At this point I have a genuine question. If citizens are drilling their own water, generating their own electricity, and paying for their own security… What exactly are we paying taxes for?

@Jeremybtc Everything on the right comes with everything on the left.

You can only spend $50 Choose wisely

@GaryStoneSWS @Nithya_Shrii What is?

@Nithya_Shrii Untrue. Everything is relative SMS every journey is unique. Everybody gets “figure it out” and trauma. Capital without these two will evaporate. Making the starting line equal is not the solution.

Rich kids get capital. Middle class kids get “figure it out.” Poor kids get trauma and told it builds character. The starting line is not equal.

@ihatemeen_ Every morning?

once used a phone that "P" wasn't working. So every morning my brother sends me "P" so I can copy and use for the day😭😭😭

@JuliusElum @KeruboSk 🤣🤣

@KeruboSk I will tell you what happened, if you look right now, the economy is hard and people don't need to talk deeply for energy conservation, probably not eaten for days

Are y'all noticing that most men's voices aren't as deep anymore? What happened?

@big_chocky Something is wrong with this image.. they're all white people.

When the government tells you: “We’re in the same boat”

@omgsidewalks Real!

As an actual private person, I can tell you for a fact that people act very odd when they cannot even figure out who you are or what is really going on in your life beyond the surface.

Distorted.

@KooNti10 I thought about Hitler for a sec.

Branding is soo crazy...we all know who this is

@gothburz 🤣🤣 I told my cousin I had $35k illiquid assets.. More like $69 worth of NFTs! This post cracked me up fet!! We were the builders! We are still the builders.. NFTs are great tech.. poor use cases.

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million. None of it was real. I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off. I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier." The frontier closed last week. It's a mobile app now. Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me. I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs. The avatars didn't have legs. I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis. I called myself a "digital land baron." I put it in my Twitter bio. I put it in my LinkedIn headline. I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts. My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment. My actual apartment has furniture. Location, location, location. My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court. I held. Diamond hands. That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait. A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users. He said I didn't understand the technology. I didn't. I still bought more. We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts. We voted to "acquire strategic parcels." The vote passed unanimously. I voted four times. My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY." The slide had a rocket emoji. That was my entire financial model. In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000. It's worth $14,000 now. I don't talk about the Ape. I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera. My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was. I said "digital art on the blockchain." She asked why it cost more than her car. I said "you don't understand Web3." She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment." She's not in my Discord. Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million. It's worth about $90,000 now. I felt better about mine after I heard that. That's community. WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero. We're all gonna make it. None of us made it. But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something. It doesn't. But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus. Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse. I need to say that again. $84 billion. More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines. They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets. It lives on as a mobile app. My beachfront villa is now a mobile app. Location, location, location. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that." Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025. That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun. They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables." The pivot took four years and $84 billion. I pivoted too. I'm an AI real estate investor now. I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models." I don't know what that means. I gave him $40,000. He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan. The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank. Q4 is always blank. That's where the exit scam goes. My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes. I said $1.2 million. He said "current market value." I said $6,400. He stared at me for eleven seconds. I know because I counted. He asked if I had any other investments. I showed him my NFTs. He stared for longer. I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance." He asked if I'd considered a 401k. I told him a 401k was "legacy finance." He told me to leave his office. The metaverse is dead. I don't accept that. I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car. Location, location, location. The location is nowhere. But I'm early. I'm always early. That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

@Nithya_Shrii Appears to me the Zebra's just the umpire in this game where ants are trampled up on.

If you ask the grass, the zebra is the monster and the lion is the protector.

@IAMRODdeGreat @Nikitadigital10 @donamarahp @hotdao_ 🤣🤣

@Nikitadigital10 @donamarahp @hotdao_ Everyone is watching 😂

Welcome and congrats to @donamarahp as a new CEO of @hotdao_ The new HOT era is coming ❤️‍🔥

Pay the world whatever it takes to leave you alone to think. ~ Naval

@brian_armstrong Imagine politicians refusing to die simply because they can afford the means using state resources?

@brian_armstrong Hey, I got older today!

Getting old shouldn't be viewed as inevitable, just because it happens to everyone. It's a disease that kills over 100,000 people a day, and hopefully it will be optional in the future.