P. D. Hersch Omondi

B.Pharm KU■ Sec Gen KUPhSA 2023-24■ Fitness enthusiast■ Manchester United■ Maranda High School■ Isaiah 41:13

[🕊 @sirtrickzz]

the worst move a nigga can make is losing faith in God.

[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.

[P. D. Hersch Omondi @P_H_Derick]

@Tonui_Yebei Correct

[P. D. Hersch Omondi @P_H_Derick]

@Tonui_Yebei Ni kama koo italainika mwezi wa kumi 😌

[Gachie_patrick 🇰🇪🇨🇦 @patrickgachie2]

Goodbye World Cup . See you in 2030
Manifesting a good life by then . A good Hustle that earns me good money 💴, A good car , A good apartment. I hope by then I’ll be doing exports of agriproducts as well . Graduation 👩‍🎓. A good life full of abundance by 2030🕯️
I’ll come back to

[Wahinya🇰🇪 @Wahinya_Charlie]

Them: “Na Messi akikosa kushinda World Cup?”

Me:👇

[Okong' Okuna @XivTroy]

This should be the least of your worries, man. Worry about your career, about your health, about your education. Don't twist an ankle worrying about things you can't control. Thunder might strike, the ground might open up, a volcano might erupt: live your life anyway.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

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[Jordan Abbott MD @JordanAbbottMD]

Physicians are not burned out because medicine is hard.

Medicine has always been hard. That is not new.

We are burned out because the things making it harder have nothing to do with medicine.

Fix the system. Keep the physicians.

[حيدر @na_maza_na_swad]

When you're a little scared of them

[Ajibola @4jibola]

nothing feels better than locking in and seeing results

[KAT @reallKAT]

I’ll get married to the right person, no divorce , no infidelity & we’d raise Godly seeds and I won’t have any regrets 🤍

[Hlovo @hlovo_]

Fellas never settle 😭🤞🏾

[Mr Pubungu @HEPubungu1]

Growing up in Lucky Summer has shaped me academically, socially, and spiritually into who I am today. This is my home, and I offer myself in service to its people with humility and commitment. We cannot risk our ward’s future in the hands of poor leadership and corruption. Let us stand together, protect our progress, and choose accountable, people-centered leadership. Vote Mr Pubungu Odera for MCA Lucky Summer Ward.

[Kubai 🍃 @KubaiWaKubai1]

Walai naona soon nikiomoka hadi mokoro aenjoy.

[𝓐𝔂𝓸✯ @shefwayo]

when you finally do your laundry and all your top-tiers clothes are back

[New Mentalities @NewMentalities]

Stay in the fight long enough and life has no choice but to hand you what’s yours.

[ًً @llRllDll]

أحيانًا أحس الحب يكمن في هالتفاصيل الصغيرة