I was in Monaco few years ago.
Really nothing special.
Bunch of old dudes, trust fund babies and gold-diggers.
What people don't understand, especially in USA - Europe has GENERATIONAL WEALTH.
I am talking money that has been piling up for centuries.
France, Italy, Spain, UK, Portugal, there are literally families who owned slaves and cotton-fields, ships, docks, export-import licences.
They were the ones producing goods with no labour cost and exporting it to America.
They were the ones who were buying Paris land plots for pennies back in the days that are now worth billions.
Most of them really just fell on super-accumulated wealth over big period of time.
Few of the people will achieve this wealth for their lifetime.
Very few.
Most of the people I've met there are really born into money.
It's normal for them, as it was normal for their parents.
I never found it cool cause I just don't belog there even tho I am very well educated and raised and I made a very, very affluent life for myself.
The truth is - you will never belog there if you don't come from money.
The true, dynasty money.
This is also what US people don't understand.
European old money doesn't respect the hustle and motion, they find it silly and amusing.
You are a lower-status poor child they were thought not to take seriously.
You know the girl you meet one summer.
She thinks you are cute and loves that you are street smart, and bend the rules.
She will party with you, hang out, fuck you and have her romance, but she will marry someone from her class.
This is literally how most of the true aristocratic European circles still look at world.
I also never found old money cool other then aesthetics and arhitecture - and for that they have the best one.
In my books most of them are useless spoiled kids who just won in life by chance and they have no respect for anything cause they haven't done anything themselves most of the times.
They think we are savages and we think they are pussies.
Find a place you belong in buddy and make a world a better place then you found it.
Even if you do stumble in those echalons of society, you will always be a gaijin.
Nigeria accounts for ~90% of MTN's operating profits despite being 33% of its total subscribers.
It's obvious that MTN is fleecing Nigerians to subsidize the rest of their Africa operations. This is where the govt has to step in, but they won't.
Highly recommend letting people know you're capable of madness from time to time. Especially as a quiet, soft spoken person. Disrespect sometimes needs to be met with disrespect... let people know you can go from O to Thanos real quick...
Many of you Nigerians are so ridiculous. Sending your account numbers to terrorists because they are doing giveaway. You have zero shame and even fear. Blood money and you’re scrambling for your share. Embarrassing.