Tschadyque Kam

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[Niraj @nocbtw]

There is a massive psychological shift that happens when you stop viewing hard work as a punishment and start viewing it as a filter.

The crowd spends their entire lives complaining about how unfair, how complex, or how exhausting the market is.

They want the prize without the fight.

But the rich understand that the pain of the process is the exact mechanism that keeps the prize valuable.

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

The wildest part about POVERTY is how much time it steals. Waiting for buses. Calling assistance offices. Comparing grocery prices. Fighting insurance. Sitting at laundromats. Being poor is a second job nobody pays you for.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

People defend capitalism because they confuse it with commerce. They believe “capitalism” is when people start businesses and sell things.

If people understood that the thing they call capitalism and love so much is actually just commerce and that it’s not the same thing as capitalism, they would feel very different.

This is because a local baker selling bread, a mechanic fixing cars, or an artisan selling wares on a digital storefront is a sign of commerce in a market economy, which is simply a mechanism for exchanging goods and services based on supply and demand.

Needless to say, this has existed for thousands of years before capitalism was created.

As economic historian Fernand Braudel pointed out, commerce and capitalism are not only distinct; but historically, they have often operated at cross-purposes.

According to Braudel, ordinary commerce is competitive and transparent, while capitalism is anti-competitive and deliberately opaque, making it a zone of privilege held by a small elite who bend the rules in their favour.

Braudel further argues that commerce, or the market, is horizontal, transparent, and competitive and as old as civilization itself. It involves individuals or small groups trading goods, where barriers to entry are low, no single player dominates, and profit is a reward for fulfilling a specific need.

Capitalism, meanwhile, is a specific institutional arrangement that emerged relatively recently in human history, around the 16th to 17th centuries. It is NOT just people “trading stuff”. It is instead the legal and financial system where the means of production are privately owned, and the primary objective is the continuous, infinite accumulation of capital.

Because of this accumulation-obssessed nature of capitalism, when it scales up, it seeks to eliminate the free play of commerce to protect its investments. True market competition is risky for massive capital as it drives prices down and threatens profit margins.

Braudel contended that capitalism only begins where commerce ends. It is the zone of high finance and state collusion. Because it operates across vast distances such as the 17th-century spice trade, information takes months to travel, which creates a deliberate lack of transparency.

Braudel noted that the great capitalists of the early modern era in Madeira and Venice or the Dutch East India Company, never wanted to compete in a fair, transparent market because competition slices profit margins to the bone. Instead, they secured royal charters, exclusive trading rights, and naval protection. At the same time, the state granted them legal monopolies, effectively outlawing competition.

Therefore, capitalism naturally trends toward creating monopolies and securing state interventions like bailouts, subsidies, and regulatory capture to shield itself from the very market forces it claims to champion. In fact, the most important takeaway from Braudel’s analysis is that capitalism is NOT the natural evolution or the highest form of the free market, it is its dark shadow.

So, when our lizard overlords use “free market” and “capitalism” interchangeably, they’re deliberately hiding this distinction and using the moral legitimacy of the hard-working, transparent business owner to defend the structural privileges of the protected financial elite and its regulatory capture.

If ordinary people could comprehend these distinctions, many self-described “capitalists” would realise they are just pro-commerce, and actually anti-capitalist, because it would be clear that defending “capitalism” means defending the right of a small parasite class to bypass the market entirely.

[Tschadyque Kam @tschadyque]

@NewtonAllan6 What about Millennium Song.

[Gir'amata🪡 @aliza_pearl]

Went to shule with this girl whose father was the ultimate IT dad, present, sensitive and intentional. Her role model in what a man should be.

In later years when we were at that Eriksons stage of development she would weigh every male who approached her on daddy's scale. /1

[Kamoga munawa @KamogaMunawa]

Former President of Botswana Ian Khama has no kind words for Gen.Museveni…

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

A calm nervous system changes the way you experience life. When you live from peace instead of urgency, everything carries a different energy. Your words become gentler. Your decisions become clearer. Your relationships become deeper. You stop rushing. You stop forcing. You stop needing to prove your worth. Instead, you move at a pace that feels true to you. You begin to trust that not everything has to happen today. You learn that things can wait... And everything you do becomes an honest expression of who you are. That's what peace gives you. A life that finally feels like your own.

[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

LORD MAYOR KAMPALA

Eng Balimwezo Ronald Nsubuga

Next week, I meet up with the current mayor of Kampala and our discussions will focus on 4 major reasons why Cities exist and those are.

Will be my first time to meet him!

1- Search for economic opportunities and therefore, cities must first focus on how the city economy thrives.

The Bible says pray for the city in which you live, when it prospers, you also prosper and yes, if the city doesn’t prosper, you don’t prosper.

2- search for good education, cities generally speaking host the best educational institutions because when its economy improves, the need for better education grows.

3- Good health, because of prosperity of the city obviously the city hosts the best health facilities. Poor environment don’t host good health facilities.

Good health depends on 3 pillars, good housing, good education and good nutrition and all depend on a good economy. Reason no poor is amongst the top 20 health nations.

4- Security, cities with great wealth intend to have better secure environments generally speaking. Wealth nations tend to invest better for their security than the poor ones.

I will invite the Lord Mayor to kasese and see how RWENZORI MARATHON is slowly transforming Kasese and see first hand what numbers of spenders mean for an economy.

The owner of TORONTO MARATHON has for example invited me for Toronto marathon and is going to organize a diner where the mayor of Toronto will be and would be happy to go with our mayor and sees how mayors position cities.

We shall discuss a marketing plan for Kampala city, would nice to hear Kenyans, Tanzanians, South Africans, Nigerians etc saying, we shall visit Kampala and spend our money there.

Places like Namungogo shouldn’t be places where activities happen only in the month of June. It should be attracting spenders throughout the year and we shall discuss how that works.

THIS THINKING SHOULD APPLY TO EVERY MAYOR AROUND THE COUNTRY AND YOU VOTERS MUST ENGAGE THEM.

[mlaguzi🚬 @omwanba_]

I found out my son wasn’t mine when he was 8. I still gave him all my love.

On his 18th birthday, he inherited a large sum from his biological dad. He took it and left.
No news. No replies to my calls. I thought I’d lost him for good.

25 days later, I got a frantic call from

[Chandana 🌻✨ @RoseOnX9]

In every bloodline, there's one person who breaks the cycle of poverty.
These are the signs of that person:

[Weird Confessions Uganda @UG_confesses]

My therapist told me "If you just tried not hating everyone and everything you'd find life is fairly good!"

I say that to all you people that have something negative to say about everything. You create your own reality. View life from a dark lense, it becomes dark

[Felix Kitaka @TheMutambuze]

My son, never pour your wealth just to buy the respect of strangers.

The people who happily drink your expensive beer today will suddenly stop picking up your phone calls the day a financial storm hits your house.

Put your money to work instead. A working shilling will never sing your praises in public, but it will silently defend your dignity when the crowds disappear.

Be blessed.

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Somewhere in the race of life, we forget who we are. The real self slowly gets buried. Under stress. Anxiety. Expectations. Other people’s opinions about who we should become. And one day you realize you don’t even remember the things that used to make you feel alive. The version of you that spent hours making the perfect playlist. The one who loved watching old westerns. The one who read fiction without trying to extract a life lesson. The one who played sports just because it was fun. The one who went outside because being alive felt interesting enough. And now? You’re sitting alone in a dark room scrolling through 10-second videos. Laughing at things you won’t remember 5 min later. A laugh that doesn’t even reach your lips. That’s why slowing down matters. Being alone matters. 'Know thyself' matters. Because when the noise disappears, something beautiful happens... You finally start hearing the person your left behind.

[Tschadyque Kam @tschadyque]

There's a trading center in Namanve called "Lost City"

[AIDEN KALIISA @AidenKaliisa]

Never skip a few moments later 😅

[Merry Hearts 'Tumbeetu. @Merryheartsug]

They will always clap for you 🙌🙌🤣🤣
Ugandans

[Tschadyque Kam @tschadyque]

@LisaMonroe36759 @Ntalebrian22 The answers to your questions are in plain English, is Kamwokya a ghetto; yes, did @HEBobiwine grow up there; yes. Is it bad to relate with the people you grew up with even when you were abit well-off compared to them; no.
Oba ntegerekeka????

[Tschadyque Kam @tschadyque]

@LisaMonroe36759 @Ntalebrian22 Coming or living in the ghetto doesn't automatically mean you are poor. The story is his family we're living in the Kamwokya which is a ghetto. Just like Muyenga has poor communities, Kamwokya has people with money.

[Tschadyque Kam @tschadyque]

@SsemujjuIN Osaanze President wawano amaze okulonda Cabinet janakola nayo emirimu

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

The real purpose of wealth is freedom. Freedom to slow down. Freedom to not rush through your own life. Freedom to spend your days doing things that you actually care about. That’s what money is really for. Not to impress strangers. Not to collect expensive distractions. But to buy back your time. A quiet breakfast without checking emails. Long dinners without looking at the clock. Conversations without feeling rushed. A two-week vacation where your nervous system finally relaxes. Time to read. To think. To explore your interests deeply. That’s real wealth. Everything else is noise.