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When I was a child… 1 Cor 13:11. Whoops!🫠

[NwakaMoney @Nwaka_Money]

Omorrr anyhow e be... the Lord is my shepherd🙂‍↔️

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@biolafisher @_DaraDaniel I don die🤣🤣

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@yesmeetsmaybe @MisterMayD 😄😄😄😄

[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.

[NEMESIS🍃 @CocoAfrica69]

Ancestors wey no keep generational wealth for me no get right or power to keep generational curse for me.

[Calvary🔮 @TamunoDavid2006]

Should we talk about the hatred first daughters received from their mother's because they were jealous their husband loved the daughters more??

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

So if Alex Onyia didn’t decide to take these kids to Rome, you mean the world would not have seen us win gold?

Some other country would have won and we would have thought they were the brightest on earth?

Bad Governance is hiding the greatness of Nigerians.

I’ve said on previous tweets that Nigerians are the brightest and smartness people on earth. No enabling environment to showcase that brilliance.

[DRE💔 @Motion_Boy_]

Saving the meat for the last swallow only to find out it was moulded egusi

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

Your citizenship really determines so much for you. As a Nigerian, your matter long ooo.

I had a Saudi classmate when I was fling my Masters. He explained to me that all Saudis in the UK were fully sponsored by the government. I asked what his plan was after school, he said he was going back home to take up a job. He didn't even like the UK. I don't blame him, he struggled with the language and culture.

I had Korean classmates (those ones are always rich and clean). No one was staying back or had plan to.

I saw Chinese classmate 2 years later. He had started a business with his babe. He told me the government encourages them to take loan to invest abroad. I thought we were just having a discussion. I didn't know he had his plan mapped out.

My Spanish friend (the only one I still talk to), I asked him when he was going to pick up his British passport since he was eligible for it having been in UK for many years, he said he didnt need it that his passport takes him where he needs to go. I spoke to him recently and he said he is looking to leave the UK soon. He wants to return home to Barcelona. That reminds me, he has been inviting me to Barcelona 🤦‍♂️

At the start of Covid, my Canadain flatmate packed his bag and left. He told me he would finish his program from there. I once asked how he was paying for his program (Law Undergraduate), he said he took a loan from the bank in Canada.

Then you look at Nigerians- we are always looking for how to stay back at all cost because home offers nothing. Conversation always centred around sponsorship jobs - even if it is care job. This is after working 12 hours shift through out your Masters to pay for your fees and cover for your living expenses. People are even so desperate, they are paying 10k to 12k for sponsorship job just to stay back.

[NwakaMoney @Nwaka_Money]

@d_ckson1 God abeg🤣🤣🤣

[Okikiola @GuddyBamidele]

I find it really weird that all my life in Church i was told that when you pray you also take actions
If you pray to pass you also have to read
If you pray to get rich you also have to work
But somehow we are told to pray for Nigeria and not hold our leaders accountable

[Emeka @Emeneks]

I can’t believe the kind of person I’m becoming 😭

[coco the designer @cocografiks]

wholesome moment when you’re reading your Bible and you come across a popular verse.

i’ll be like ‘so this is where this is?’😂

[NwakaMoney @Nwaka_Money]

@Bellebliss44 @Adunniolaide02 She obeyed because you didn't interfere.

Kudos to your boy

[Chef Mo Of Lagos👩‍🍳 Pasta Queen (PBD/0706) @molOluwa_Pops]

There's this Aunty who has been sending money to my sisters and i every single month since my mum passed away. Not once has she missed a month.

Even before my mum died, she used to send money to her regularly. She started doing that after our dad passed away about eight years ago. When my mum passed, she simply divided the support among my sisters and me and continued.

The funny thing is that she's not even related to my mum by blood. She was just one of the random people my mum embraced and called her sister. She lived with us during her school day. I was still very much young then

Guess what? Since both my parents passed, she has been the only person who has consistently checked on us and supported us. Meanwhile, some of the people we call family are busy telling anyone who cares to listen that we don't reach out to them or ask after them. Like are we the ones who is supposed to be doing the reaching out? Especially when my mum was the youngest in the family? Moreover, no be adult dey look for children and coupled with the fact that we are Orphans trying to figure out life on our on

Life has taught me that family isn't always about blood. Sometimes, the people you call family aren't really your family, and the people who truly show up for you are the ones who choose to love you.

[Yemsss🌞🧡🌞 @Yeahmicee_]

He ateeeeeeee 🔥🔥🥰

[Alabi @the_Lawrenz]

When the Chibok girls disaster and insecurity were rampaging the north, you people called for Jonathan’s head. Since he was the chief security officer, and rightly so, we all demanded action from him.

Now this insecurity has worsened under this administration, yet you people say we should deflect responsibility to the governors instead?

Were there no governors during GEJ’s time? Make me understand quickly.

In 2014, our current president boldly stated that “on matters of security, the buck of the responsibility falls on the president’s table.”

He’s now the president and commander of a very powerful military. Stop these fucking terrorists!!!!!

[Ayo @Alhajirostova]

hunters for bandits
soldiers for protesters

oya nau

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

1000 forest guards to go after organised terrorists. 😵‍💫

A country with armed forces o. Acclaimed best land force in Africa.

If they explain Nigeria for you and you understand - guy, you dey crase seh.

1000 forest guards?

@officialABAT at your end - we will throw a party.

[UG @UgwunnaEjikem]

Even when I don’t have strength to make anti Tinubu tweets I RT everyone I see.

Amplifying the cancer that this Tinubu led government is, is essential to our survival as a people.

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@Emeneks 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣