Greyy

R&D Professional. Founder O-Hub. Chelsea Royalty💙💙. Poet, and all things in between.

[Greyy @Grey0x1]

@kingtgldesigns I see the vision my bro🔥🔥🔥

[ًًًً @nobodylikestar]

babe wey i break up with today call me say i just lose the most important thing for my life, i rush go kitchen and she don empty my bag of ijebu garri

[Da’ Jamal.23⚽️🏀 @Dajamal_23]

This nigga.

He empty die.

[Greyy @Grey0x1]

@teeewaks You don do your best😂😂💔

[Danny Walter 🧸 @AjeboDanny]

I screamed before he screamed 😂

[Greyy @Grey0x1]

@jayhemz 11. “We are a family here”
12. Morning Devotion

God please😂🤲🏽

[Yehgha @yaygha]

Allow me give a not so brief history lesson so we can all understand what is going on here.

For much of European history, pale skin was a marker of status. An elite woman was supposed to have skin that had barely been under the sun because pale skin signalled she did not work outdoors.

In a world where most people spent their lives labouring under the sun to survive, avoiding the sun was evidence of wealth.

The rich could stay indoors and send the poor outside to work for them. This is why they wore gloves and wide hats when outside. It is also where the term blue blood comes from; rich families who never did physical labour and thus were rarely in the sun had skin so pale the veins underneath would show.

So to be tanned meant to do outdoor labour, and to do outdoor labout meant to be poor.

But as the industrial revolution came around and factories multiplied, the poor who had previously laboured outdoors were pulled indoors to work in factories, workshops and later offices rather than under the sun

And their skin became paler.

Now if the poor could become pale skinned simply by working indoors, then pale skin could no longer communicate wealth, so the elite abandoned the old signal and switched to a new one: tanned skin.

Because now it meant only they had the time and money to lie in the sun while everyone else worked indoors.

Pale meant rich, tanned meant poor. Then pale meant poor so the rich did a 180 and went back to tanned.

That is exactly the same thing that is happening here. Wiresless ear buds generally, and airpods specifically meant rich. Wired earphones meant poor.

Then when everyone could afford wiresless ear buds and their replica knock-offs, wireless meant poor and the 'rich' who differentiated themselves with wiresless in the past, switched back to wired.

It is not because they "got tired of charging their wireless earbuds"

Away from the history lesson, the broader explanation is that humans crave to be seen. We do not want to go through life unnoticed. This is why we do only spend money to enjoy ourselves, we spend money so that others can see us spending money.

And one of the most common, socially acceptable ways of doing so is through the things we wear. For example. We do not spend money on watches that could buy a car so we can check the time. We spend that money so others can see that we spent money.

The point of the spending is the spending witnessed.

And with that, we signal that we are high status and that signal brings us attention .

But this flex has a fundamental flaw in the sense that the moment the status signal works, those below begin to copy it until it loses its utility.

So what happens to a status marker when those below can afford it too?

Simple; those above abandon it.

In conclusion, The things we buy, wear, drive, or use are driven by 1) the desire to belong and 2) the desire to stand out.

You want to look like the people above you to feel among, but you also want to look different from the people below you to stand out.

So the rich adopt a signal
The wannabe middle class copies it
And the majority poor copy the wannabes

And once the signal becomes widespread enough, it stops doing the job it was intended to do. Then the elite abandon it and look for a new one.

Sometimes they move to something more expensive or difficult to acquire. Sometimes they move to something obscure enough that the wannabes and the poor can't even grasp it. And sometimes, as with tanning and wired earphones, they do a 180 and move in the opposite direction.

It happens with clothes, bags, earphones, restaurants, language and so on.

The rich keep moving. The middle class keeps chasing, and the poor keep copying. And the markers of status keep changing. And on and on and on it goes.

[Nizaar Kinsella @NizaarKinsella]

Mudryk just got an assist in training.

[Greyy @Grey0x1]

Again, I have to side with Sheepstealer😂😂🔥🔥

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

Sheepstealer speaks out after being jumped by 3 dragons last night.

[SB @seyedele]

The time he went to battle, they lost a dragon and the Crown Prince of the Seven Kingdoms.

[Johnmark Obiefuna @jayhemz]

Small money touched my hand one time, I decided I wanted to change my phone number.

After 1 week, I realized my phone number was the gate to so many things in my life, from subscriptions to apps to contacts.

Mission aborted. I confirm say my phone number na family member.

[Johnmark Obiefuna @jayhemz]

The white man comes to legally work in your land, you call them expatriates.

You go to legally work in their land, they call you immigrants.

Taking note.

[Greyy @Grey0x1]

@seyedele This question did something to me that I can’t quite explain with words💔

[bandito💜 | comfort food @ogheneyxle]

he has to get it right first try too, her faith in him demanded it; that’s what a father does. not the one that won’t even answer and people will tell you prayed/asked amiss or he’s answering in mysterious ways

[Marc Cucurella @cucurella3]

Thank you 💙

[Greyy @Grey0x1]

@FabrizioRomano What the hell?😭😭😂😂

[fawn @fawnncel]

and sometimes you realize the sad 14 year old girl in you has not gone away yet

[Greyy @Grey0x1]

I have come to the conclusion that there’s absolutely nothing Incredible about The Hulk

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Just a normal, regular news bulletin in a totally not-at-all-insane country, casually debating how best to commit crimes against humanity on morning television.