sammie @seneth2

🤪🤪🤪🤪 rub it on their faces

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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand

2 days ago

As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are. For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at

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As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are. For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at the time - and probably still is - the most expensive undergraduate school in Europe (EHL in Lausanne, Switzerland). Needless to say, many of my classmates were from unbelievably privileged backgrounds. Just in my classroom in Lausanne I had the son of a (very famous) Russian oligarch, the son of Italy's largest real estate developer and the son of Spain's largest real estate developer (funnily, the latter two were flat mates). Another classmate of mine came from the richest family in Naples, Italy and - while we were at school - his father (known in Naples under the nickname "Il Sultano") got arrested for having bribed half of Naples's city council - which, if you know Naples, ought to tell you something. These were the kids I was doing group projects on business ethics with (literally) 😅 Anyhow, my story, and probably my luck, was that - before going to high school in Paris - I was raised in very normal public schools in the South of France where my friends were anything but wealthy. Their parents were farmers and everyday workers. Which means - and I'd come to realize this was very important in life - that it was easy for me to understand how big a mistake it is to see money as identity and meaning - and to confuse someone's net worth with their actual worth. What really struck me at the time was the contrast with my "poor" classmates of earlier in my life. They couldn't define themselves by what they had - by definition - and this forced them to reach deeper for their identity: their skills, knowledge, humor, etc. Rich kids can skip that entire process, and the tragedy is that most of them do: they reach for the readymade identity that money provides. I remember being incredibly frustrated by many of my classmates, like "ok, I get it, your dad is rich and you own a lot of nice things but who are YOU, what else is there?" The answer, more often than not, was nothing. To be fair, there were exceptions. One of my classmates I was most impressed by came from one of Zurich's wealthiest families (which, if you know Zurich, means insanely wealthy) yet he was almost OCD in not showing he had money: driving the shittiest car imaginable, living in a small studio, etc. He was very intellectual, very contrarian, and clearly at war with the idea that his family's wealth ought to define who he was. I only discovered who he actually was when I started my first company and he approached me to invest: to discuss the investment I went to one of his family homes, which it turned out was a literal palatial castle on the shores of Geneva lake. The guy had decided to live in a small rundown studio when he literally had a castle sitting empty a 5-min drive away. THAT I was impressed by: it's easy to see that money isn't meaning when you don't have any. To see it when you have more than almost anyone - when everyone around you is organized around the opposite assumption - is much harder. But to actually live it, to choose the studio when you have the castle keys in your pockets - with no audience to applaud you for that - that shows real depth. At the end of the day, I think, the real distinction isn't between rich and poor but between people who exist from the inside out and people who exist from the outside in. Wealth just happens to make it incredibly easy to be the latter, to skip the work of becoming someone and settle for a borrowed identity that glitters from the outside but is hollow all the way through. A Potemkin village identity. This is actually a real societal issue, and magnified by social media (with idiotic posts like this one 👇): the more "outside in" folks out there, the less people with genuine internal anchors, the more fragile everything becomes. When you think about it, everything that genuinely matters in a society is built by people who think for themselves: they take the world in, pass it through something genuinely their own, and give back something that didn't exist before: an idea, a conviction, a stand. Every reform, every invention, every act of moral courage in history came from someone with an internal anchor strong enough to resist the current. Remove those people and all you have left is the current. This isn't new, by the way. Most ancient traditions warn against exactly this, from the Bible (the golden calf story) to Confucius, who built his entire ethics around the distinction between the exemplary person (the Junzi, 君子) - oriented around internal cultivation and righteousness - and the petty person (Xiaoren, 小人), oriented around profit and gain. The junzi builds himself from the inside, the xiaoren chases what's outside. So please, do not make the mistake of being impressed by wealthy people flaunting their wealth. Don't focus on the glitter, focus on the hollowness it's trying to hide.

LMD (Arc.) @Layemie001

2 days ago

16yo billionaire kid in Monaco. $100,000,000 secrete car garage. People don’t pay income taxes in Monaco?

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Day 20 of waking up as Premier League Champions🏆🕺

Soludo

NICOLE KAMAU @japillowKE

3 days ago

Even God himself is shocked. African pastor doing miracles. 🤣😂

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Asake ni joor

HYPETRIBE @hypetribeng

4 days ago

🚨PETER PSQUARE “I CANT LOOK AWAY” — OUT NOW Thoughts ??

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We won the league 😎. Repost to irritate bitter clowns 🤡

when the same region is overlooked and denied fair representation during appointments hope you won’t shout or make noises

Ifeanyi @c_naturalman

6 days ago

Bola Tinubu will not win a single Local Government Area in the South East in 2027.

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Peter Obi: Europe has a population of 450 million. FACT: Europe has a 745 million people Peter Obi: Europe is 4.something million square kilometers. FACT: Europe has a land size of 10.1 million square kilometers. You people should not allow this dullard and Adojutini anywhere near power. He has nothing upstairs!

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May Allah expose the sponsors of insecurity in Nigeria

Still on Ogbomoso Kidnap Incident. Whoever leaked that classified information in the middle of investigation and rescue effort is a terrorist apologist. Not every security info is meant for social media. Zero Opsec jeopardize Ops Again, arrest whoever leaked that info

Peter Obi along with the NDC leaders are urging aspirants to accept primary results; Even when Aisha Yesufu has talked about irregularities that happened? Someone who is supposedly fighting for a better Nigeria wants aspirants to accept a questionable result? OK.

Our teams are working hard to clean up after yesterday’s @Arsenal parade – and what a day it was! With over a million people attending, it’s a major clean-up. We’re getting through it as quickly as we can, so please bear with us while we get the borough back to its best ✨ (1/2)

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It's not a fire outbreak. It's the Champions of the Best League in the World!!!

Oil money can't buy this.😍😍 I LOVE THIS CLUB♥️

Premier League champions, and within touching distance of European glory. A season we can be immensely proud of.

A season to be proud of. We pushed the boundaries over land and sea, and couldn't have done it without your support. Thank you, Gooners ❤️

Maybe in the next life 🤪🤪🤪🤪

العنود🥇 @1omarali1

2 weeks ago

راح عمري كله وانا ارتب ملابسي غلط

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🚨 Arsenal parade buses pull up at Emirates

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