On 04/06/26, police in Beatrice arrested Clayton Chapwanya (36) for unlawful possession of unregistered medicines. Police recovered 250 bottles of BronCleer cough syrup from the suspect, who had just received the contraband at the Beatrice truck stop.
Had a tough but fascinating talk with form 1 to 4 students at a ๐ฟ๐ผ high school in today. The topic was money.
My core message was simple:
Money is earned through value exchange.
You do not โgetโ money.
You earn it by offering goods or services valuable enough for other people to exchange money for.
Just like you donโt โgetโ a degree; you earn it.
I can tell a lot about a person about how they speak about money:
Let get that paper (not manufacturing it)
Getting that bread (not baking it)
Making Cheddar? (Thatโs valuable)
I tried to challenge how we speak about money. Instead of saying:
โLetโs go get moneyโ.
We should ask:
โHow do I become more valuable?โ
โHow do I create more value for others?โ
Because if you can consistently provide value, you will never truly have โno money.โ
Value can be:
Good food
Convenience
Security
Education
Entertainment
Skills
Technology
Solving difficult problems
A plumber earns because plumbing is valuable to people who cannot plumb.
A developer earns because software can solve problems.
A musician earns because joy and entertainment are valuable.
Then I asked the students what they wanted to become.
A large number said:
IRL streamers
YouTubers
TikTok influencers
A few said app developers.
Nobody said accountant.
Nobody said scientist.
What struck me was this:
Many of them admire wealth outcomes without understanding value creation.
One student said he wants to be like Elon Musk.
I explained:
Elon Musk became wealthy because he created massive value at scale, through payments, electric vehicles, internet infrastructure, rockets, communications platforms, and engineering companies.
Another said he wants to be like Mark Zuckerberg.
But the important question is not:
โHow do I become Zuckerberg?โ
The real question is:
โWhat value did Zuckerberg create for billions of people?โ
Then someone said they wanted to be like Wicknell Chivayo.
Everyone laughedโฆ ๐คฃ
But... Whether you like him or not, whether you agree with the value heโs creating benefit to society or not, heโs creating value to someone or something. Could be at the detriment or others, who knows. But someone finds it valuable. You donโt get that rick without creating VALUE!
Pablo Escobar and Michael Jordan both have created value โฆ for better or worse.
A lot of young Zimbabweans today can clearly see moneyโฆ but cannot clearly see the value system behind it.
With people like Strive Masiyiwa, itโs easier:
We understand the value created through Econet and telecommunications.
The danger is when young people only see the money at the end, without understanding the years of value creation underneath it. Behind the slay queen with the orange iPhone, is a satisfied overweight married businessman.
Zimbabwe desperately needs a generation obsessed not with โlooking richโ , but with becoming genuinely useful to humanity by creating value!!
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk