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[a.a @user_C138]

@rraahhmmaattt There was one day I forgot my umbrella at home rain beat craze commot for my body 😂

[a.a @user_C138]

100%😂😂

[rahmahsugar🫪🫩 @rraahhmmaattt]

This 9-5 lifestyle lol. Carry handbag, laptop bag, umbrella, pack sweatshirt, carry slippers to change after work, carry bottle, pack lunchbag, pack socks, etc. Pack everything you can for the day and the day you decide not to take one of things, you regret it😭.

[Zindel kira @Zenith4luv]

If you think people are STINGY,

Calm down and look for a job,

Work for a month.

Get paid and start sharing the money

[Prello @DPrello]

81% of the population took the Covid vaccine. This means there is only 19% of people who are able to think on their own

[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.

[PHUTI SEMENYA®🇿🇦 ⚖️ @PhutiSemenya14]

Part of my salary goes to transporting myself to work so that I can get a salary.

[Abdool Moh. @abdool_moh]

The people that were defending political dog Rarara when Davido called him an illiterate saying he is knowledgeable in islam and Qur’an bla bla bla. They even tried to turn it into North vs South. Now that Rarara insulted a respected Sheikh of Islam, they are suddenly mute about his islamic knowledge.

[ʜᴀɪꜱᴇ ✟ @p1kacchuu]

We’re so cooked😭

[Zahra B @Talk2meeh]

Nothing gives me the ick more than a person who wakes up first and decides that nobody else in the house deserves to sleep. They start slamming kitchen cabinets, banging utensils, gagging and spitting loudly while brushing their teeth, shutting doors with unnecessary force, stomping through the house, and talking loudly on the phone.

Especially on a Saturday 😩

[Toluwani @gabe_teee]

Once you support APC, I don't see you as someone who has any morals.
You're a filthy, disgusting and a dishonest person.

[Lisa @lisathebeauty1]

Adulting is so humbling. You can avoid spending money for a week and end up spending all the money you saved that week in one day.

[rahmahsugar🫪🫩 @rraahhmmaattt]

Living in close proximity to your workplace is such an underrated blessing.

[𝚄𝚐𝚋𝚎𝚍𝚎𝚘𝚓𝚘. @Just_JONIER]

"Mummy I'll buy you a car at 25, Daddy I'll build you a house too."

Me at 25 looking at MTN's outrageous data plans.

[Elvis C.I @elvis_ci]

The founder of Konga is the founder of Miva University.

Once you start cooking, the gas never goes off.

[Gaara @H_primee]

You think people are lying when they say their salary is gone the same day they get paid… until you start working a 9–5.
Then it all starts making sense. 💀

[Abduljalal Musa Aliyu @AbduljalaalMusa]

There never was, and there never will be, a set of people as foolish as Buharists.

Guess what they did? They sent him about a hundred million naira.

See, we’re wasting our time. This country will only move forward when the masses decide that enough is enough.

Nigeria is filled to the brim with dumb people. You can’t worship the same politicians who make life hell for you and still be disgusted at being called dumb.

[Bady @MalanBady_]

If a person earning 150k sends you 5k, know that he woke up, took a bath, dressed up, boarded transport and went to work just for you.

Imagine the same when they send you 10k, 20k or 30k.

They suppressed some needs to meet yours.

Be grateful and don’t be an entitled she/he-got.

[Mr. Nobody @MmisterNobody]

Once you realize that the general public is retarded you stop caring about how crazy you look to them.

[𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙝 𝐊𝐀𝐍𝐎 @Baash_Kano]

He is the best thing to ever happen to your pocket...🤣😅😂