Sometimes when I see petty traders, I do mental calculation of their entire goods and pity them.
A roadside corn seller that faces heat and smoke all day to sell only 100 pieces of corn at N300 each = N30,000. Turnover. Not profit.
I feel some pity.
Then I remember my own company's annual turnover is another person's gift.
I hold at least 100 meetings in a year, travel every other week, coordinate a team of 30, run calculations, promote the business every day online, strategize, sometimes sleepless nights, hire tax consultants, among others.
All the above stress to generate the revenue.
And someone else will casually give someone a gift that is worth that annual revenue.
I just think to myself, "Pity the woman, but someone else is pitying you too for doing all that just to generate an amount the person can dash someone in a day".
Life na level by level.
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Will Messi do it back to back? or will Lamine take the glory?
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@niq_black Wearing a suit is also more like being more western than the westerners.
We all have this traits. Some of us as an African are not even okay with African wears.
We are naturally baised people ๐ค
Argentina will play in three World Cup finals in the Messi era.
And he led them as their captain, their top scorer, and their best player to all three finals.
Only 6 players in all of history can boast of playing in 3 FIFA WC final matches; none can boast of being their teamโs best player in all three.
Do you know the crazier bit? Messi has won two FIFA World Cup player of tournament awards and he will certainly win a third regardless of what happens in the final.
He is above and beyond all. Past, Present and foreseeable future.
Morocco will eliminate France
Spain will eliminate Belgium
Norway will eliminate England
Argentina will eliminate Switzerland
Morocco will eliminate Spain
Argentina will eliminate Norway
Morocco will beat Argentina to win the world cup. You saw it here first.
How you help yourself to "let go" of this "freedom" illusion that has been successfully sold to you by Hollywood and US-funded media and civil society is to ask yourself a few important questions:
What exactly is "freedom"? Is "freedom" the ability to thumbprint on a ballot paper that will be tippexed at the collation centre with your vote given to APC regardless of who you voted for?
Is "freedom" the ability to make social media skits insulting your president that was imposed on you by a foreign power even though nobody voted for him?
Is "freedom" the ability to rant endlessly on Twitter about your "bad leaders", knowing fully well that you are just wasting English and kilobytes to no end whatsoever?
Joseph Stalin once said โIt is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.โ
I think that's a much more constructive way of viewing "freedom." Poor, deprived, uneducated people are not, and can never be "free" in any meaningful sense. What use are my "constitutional freedoms" if my stomach is empty? If my stomach and my brain are empty, I am automatically a slave to whoever can put bread in my belly and information in my head - and that person automatically has the power to turn me into a weapon fashioned against myself and those around me. In that situation, which describes most of modern Africa, can you describe me as "free"?
"Democracy" and "freedom" are some of oyibo's most dangerous linguistic weapons when used in the context of people living on a per capita income of less than $3,000/year. Where are you likelier to live a full, happy life - Nigeria or China? Nigeria supposedly has the "democracy" that China doesn't - why are Nigerians leaving that "freedom" and migrating to China for a better life, instead of the other way around? Why do North Koreans have a life expectancy that is over 20 years longer than Nigerians? Why do the Vietnamese have much better lives than most Nigerians who have ever existed?
All of the years you have spent thumbprinting ballot papers for candidates that the US embassy will never allow to win, China has been doing 5-year plans and becoming the world's greatest country.
That is precisely why a country going through a socioeconomic transition needs stiff, firm, authoritarian, nationalist bastards as its leadership - not "democratically elected" people who are subject to votes from these miserable idiots who go digging for gold on an expressway.
Lee Kuan Yew told us decades ago that when his government built high rise apartments to take poor Singaporeans out of bamboo shacks, they deliberately began peeing in the elevators and taking countermeasures against the government's attempts to stop them from messing up their own infrastructure. They had to humiliate and punish people brutally before they started acting in ways that were beneficial to their own lives.
If you want to uplift poor, colonised people, you will have to do it AGAINST THEIR WILL. Colonised people are not sane and a revolutionary must not pretend that he is up against sane, rational people who want a better life. A colonised man will steal expensive paint and empty it out into a river so that he can sell the plastic buckets and use the peanuts to play BetPesa. He will dig up his country's first high speed motorway that is going to add hundreds of millions of dollars to everyone's collective pocket, so that he can find gold nuggets and sell them for $650. He will vandalise railway lines that are meant to improve his own life so that he can sell the metal to a scrap dealer and use it to buy some pussy that night.
Colonised people are among the biggest dangers to themselves and the countries they inhabit, and any leader wishing to improve his country's material conditions despite the presence of millions of colonised people who are out of their natural minds, must be prepared to go the Stalin, Mao and Lee Kuan Yew way. Re-education camps, public flogging and forced labour so offenders can repay their debt to society.
China was once burdened with millions of useless idiots like this, but deliberate state policy removed them from the census and transformed China into the world's most successful civilisation. Hard decisions must be made in pursuit of development.
๐๐ง๐ซ- Can you imagine that itโs on the first ever highway of Burkina Faso under construction, the Ouagadougou-Bobo Dioulasso, that some people went to dig up looking for gold? What kind of mentality be this one? The Brigade Laabal caught them, and now these bastards are pleading for mercy. Man, I donโt know what to say. This is why sellouts in Africa will never stop because some people are willing to destroy the whole country just for their personal gains. I am very disgusted by this. Jeez!