@maintishe I actually find it crazy how women sees another woman with stuff and they straight up call her a prostitute. I’ve seen this play out a lot of times. Uhm, they could be trying to tell us something 🤷🏻♂️
Just as we have pocket watchers in Nigeria, we also have pocket flaunters.
For a poor country, we worship money a lot.
Have you seen how Nigerians behave around rich men? Men especially. If you think women are gold diggers, then you have not met guys around rich men. The humility and famzing are not always because they want to be put on. Sometimes, that is just who Nigerians are: money worshippers.
Pocket flaunting is the opposite of pocket watching. It is when you deliberately show off money, lifestyle, and possessions just so people can notice you.
And Nigerians are easily impressed by things that do not even matter.
A group of big boys in Lagos will go to a club, buy two bottles of Don Julio, a bottle of Casamigos, overpriced bottled water, Ace of Spades, and overpriced Coca-Cola. Then each of them will post the same receipt on their story to pocket flaunt.
More often than not, they are not splurging because they want to. They are splurging because they want to impress. Because, like I said, Nigerians are easily impressed.
The prayer of the average Nigerian is not necessarily to be rich. It is to have more money than everyone else in the neighborhood. A.K.A. “I better pass my neighbor.”
They want to be the richest because they want to be worshipped. They buy a property and make sure everybody knows the exact amount they paid for it. They buy a car and somehow the price tag becomes public information before the engine even cools down.
We have babes on Snapchat posting dollar mint bundles with Federal Reserve bands. Start flaunting money today and see the kind of fanbase you will build.
That is why a lot of Nigerians do not care where money comes from. They care that it exists.
Ramon Hushpuppi had an entire fanbase simply because he was pocket flaunting. People looked up to him. They used his pictures as wallpapers. They spoke highly of him. They turned on post notifications because they did not want to miss whatever luxury item he was going to flaunt next.
One of the most disgusting things about pocket flaunting is that it is like a drug. You always want to prove a point.
You make a purchase and post it. You make money and post it. You receive a paycheck and post it. Some people even go as far as doing giveaways for validation.
They have friends, family members, and loved ones who are genuinely struggling, but because internet validation is one hell of a drug, they would rather give money to strangers online than help the people in their own lives.
People rent Lamborghinis, watches, clothes, designer bags, wigs, apartments, and all sorts of things just to flaunt them on social media.
We are too money-driven.
We worship money so much that it is becoming difficult to tell the difference between success and performance.
One set of people is constantly pocket watching.
The other set is constantly pocket flaunting.
A country of interesting people (derogatory).
You should have things you don't do, places you don't go to, substances you don't take, words you don't say
By all means, have Principles and Standards.
@Ifyyodunze I don’t know if it’s just me, cos I believe that the people in aviation are intentionally overpricing flights fees just to force people to take road trips so that they can give kidnappers more customers. Those people are low key working hand in hand but I just can’t prove it.
When you buy a stock, be prepared for the stock to do nothing for a very long time.
Be prepared to buy more when the stock drops because there is a very high chance this will happen.
In 2008, SpaceX was one failed rocket launch away from death. @elonmusk was borrowing money to pay his rent.
This week, that same company is going public at around $1.75 trillion.
Here is how it happened.
@elonmusk started SpaceX in 2002 with money from selling PayPal. The goal sounded insane: Build far cheaper rockets, and one day put humans on Mars. Almost every serious person in aerospace expected him to fail. Rockets were a government game, not a startup game.
His first rocket was the Falcon 1. It failed on launch one. Then launch two. Then launch three. Each failure was a rocket exploding with millions of dollars and years of work inside it.
By the third failure in August 2008, SpaceX was nearly out of money. And at the exact same time, his other company, Tesla, was also dying.
He faced a brutal choice. Pour his last money into one and let the other die, or split it and risk losing both. He split it. He later admitted he came close to a nervous breakdown that year.
September 28, 2008. The fourth Falcon 1 launch. If it failed, there was no money for a fifth.
It worked.
SpaceX became the first privately built liquid-fuel rocket to reach orbit. A few hundred people did what only nations had done before.
Then the moment that saved everything. Days before Christmas 2008, NASA called and awarded SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract to fly cargo to the space station. @elonmusk , normally stiff in public, blurted out, “I love you guys.”
What turned them from survivor to giant was simple. For 60 years, rockets were used once and thrown away. SpaceX learned to land them and fly them again. One booster has now flown 34 times. That collapsed the cost of space, and in 2025 alone they flew 165 orbital missions, a world record.
But rockets were never the real money. SpaceX used its own cheap launches to deploy Starlink, internet beamed from space. By early 2026 it had over 10 million subscribers, projected to bring in around $20 billion this year.
And Nigeria was first in line. In January 2023, we became the very first African country to get Starlink.
The lesson? The boring subscription business funds the wild dream. Glamour gets attention. Recurring revenue builds empires.
2008: one launch from bankruptcy.
2026: going public at roughly $1.75 trillion.
Most people quit at the third failure. The fourth is where the story turns.
Don’t die on launch three.