Forget abroad, in Nigeria you DO NOT address your superior (parents, family, teachers, authority, police sef) by their first name, its always been taken as disrespect. I blame social media, cuz none of these people talking can see Tony Elumelu and be like "Hey Tony, how are you?" dem no born dem well. This country has always been hypocritical anyways
@SavvyRinu The only thing that needs to change in this country is our values as a people, these leaders are all a reflection of our values in action. Their names matter less, characters and personalities are interchangeable because our values remain the same.
"The Love of Money" aka greed and most people who want to eat the rich is mostly out of envy and bringing them down to a manageable size. You can't have freedom and equality at the same time. To be free, means some others will grow bigger and have more than others, to be equal means some others would have their growth pegged back to maitain a status quo. "Freedom and Equality" can only be provided by the Creator of all things not the fallen state of human consciousness
The end game is for people like you and I to become serfs, guided by a system of AI governance and a social credit score to determine universal basic income, where one lives and the kind of work one does to support the greater society lol they will give you the blanket of socialism you've been asking for but fill it with chicken pox. Enjoy.
I genuinely don’t get the endgame. If the plan ends with a ruined planet, collapsed economies, and no working class left to spend money… what are billionaires actually hoarding wealth for? To sit in a bunker with numbers on a screen that don't mean anything anymore? What is the actual point? 😭
People conflate the sins of debt financing with capitalism so much forgetting that co-relation is not causation. Inequalities have existed in human society long before capitalism, there's not much class mobility in communism or socialism. These MFs would just keep changing the mask of oppression but maintain the very mechanism that keeps them in control. "The borrower would always be slave to the lender" is the root of inequality, hence, why the Bible warned against usury (charging interest on loans), in this case the interest compounds and keeps the borrower more captive to the lender.
There can never be equal distribution of outcomes because there isn't equal distribution of risk.
The more you clamor for this, they will just give you a social credit system, universal basic income and AI to manage and govern it all. Maybe you prefer "the algorithm" distributing resources to you.
The main issue is the monetary system and debt financing, u can change taxation laws, banish the rich and divide all their spoils equally, as long as you have fiat currencies (money back by nothing of value, used to be gold), compound interest and a system where money can't be generated without lending first, the master-slave dynamic will continue to exist. With Socialism, your politicians would become the new billionaires (power over resource control) and inequality will remain because they will be purveyors of distribution according to needs esteemed by them not any objective market forces, well in this case it will be AI that governs, let's see how u like when an algorithm determines what you and your family get.
@DavidHundeyin "They blame capitalism for expensive homes and groceries" so who else are they supposed to blame? A system that chases endless profits. He does not argue why capitalism is not to blame, he rather uses scare tactics, by using unrelated points
Capitalism has truly k!lled the art of having a hobby and doing an activity for the sole purpose of enjoying it. Now everything has to be a side hustle or you feel like it's a waste of time
The soviet block got destroyed eventually, bread lines were formed, Chinas Mao, point is, socialism is very easy to romanticize when u want to highlight the downsides of crony capitalism and debt financing (which is the root cause of all these problem), fiat currency (money not backed by anything of value e.g. gold), compounding interest, debt is what actually creates the master-slave dynamic in modern day society because the borrower will always be slave to the lender. All that to say, historical precedence doesnt creed kind to socialism as the way forward youre better off iterating a whole new system non-contingent on capitalism, socialism or communism thats the real test of ingenuity, not repeated failed experiments.
@MisterChels “what did the end of Feudalism and the rise of the Soviets represent for humanity at the end of the day” -what kind of argument is this?
What does even waking up in the morning achieve for anyone at the end of the day? You want to just roll over and die? That make you feel wise?
Archangel, name one instance where evil was overthrown by good with "gentility" Udeh, nobody is asking him to use violence but to engage in political maneuverings, let's see u convert some key players to ur cause, let's see u build actual political infrastructure for longevity before you go in, its bigger than Peter Obi, its about developing a template and blueprint that subsequent Peter Obis can leverage to do the good will of the people.
@MisterChels@Morris_Monye@ruthietalks2 And you think that verse of the Bible is talking about you applying violence? You better go and read the entire chapter that verse came from and give yourself brain. The fact that you want Peter Obi to be exactly like the oppressors before he gets your support is outrageous
The ruling class has always exploited the sentiments of the masses to move things in their favor its called "manufacturing consent" Trump did the same in 2015 elections. You judge things by the results they produce not the colors involved, what did the end of Feudalism and the rise of the Soviets represent for humanity at the end of the day? simply transfered them from one system of oppression to the next iteration by painting the grass as greener on the other side. Keep up with the games, "the people" are not who u think they are lol
@MisterChels@dontplay_z You make it sound like bankers control all of human history, and oppressive inequality had nothing to do with the end of feudalism or rise of the Soviets. History doesn’t start with the birth of the US.
There is nothing sustainable about inequality. Something’s gotta give.
Better go and read the real story behind the french revolution, European monarchs were all destroyed so the bankers could use debt financing and eventually fiat currency to control nation states.
Please name a country where oppressed masses mobilized, overturned the government and it led to decades of sustainable growth for EVERYBODY.
The natural order of human society is hierarchical, whether along the lines of education, political/social status, finances, physical attributes, race etc man doesn't know EQUALITY.
They've lost out to designer sneakers, which come in more variant styles and colorways. Nikes have been relegated to stock and trade, OG and errand wear. It's not considered high fashion street wear anymore. Their designs need more "edge" and cool. The narrative behind the shoes is also dead and doesnt appeal to Gen Z ideologically speaking. "Just Do it" spoke to the ambitious nature of millennials, they have 0 messaging for Gen Z
A property that you own and posess in your personal legal name. No billionaire/multi-millionaire got to that level of wealth by owning major assets in their personal name LOL That billionaire has unrealized gains and takes loans out against those to fund expenses all in the name of a trust/registered business entity. That's the difference