The Pressure To Become "Rich"; Social Media Lessons 101
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In this post here I talked about a certain psycological phenomenon about money and how it often affects how people view it. In reality, the social media has become an agent of pressure, more than socialisation itself.
This means that you have more people who are being pressured by the pictures they see, the videos they watch, the blogs they read on maybe facebook or twitter on the amount of money being embezzled by politicians and how mere seeing the zeros behind these billions can make them feel like instant failures. In reality, I don't think "hardwork" makes people rich. "Smart work" is what does. But people who makes it through "smart work" makes you think hardwork is their secret. But then you've been working hard your entire life and it feels like nothing.
Classes of Sucessful People On The Internet
The feeling of having "nothing", is what eventually brings envy. Sometimes we fail tk see the dividends of our hardwork because people who seem to make more money makes it seem easy. While we have people who naturally makes money easily, we have people who are into illegal stuffs but front their money through legitimate venture making it seem like being an entrepreneur is like being in kindargaten.
While we have those who originally have nothing, but live expensive on the Internet to create a ruse that they're really wealthy. These last set of people are the ones who fakes it but eventually never makes it Why? Because they're busy showing how wealthy they seem and missing out on life opportuinities to do better. A lot of people are often envious of these set of people without cause, thereby creating unnecessary pressure.
The Forbes list, most influential young men, the richest men's list, luxury cars bought by footballers, Floyd Mayweather's collection of cars and a lot of other stuffs are what we wake up to the moment we browse the internet. These things have become what we see on a daily basis. We see the success, we don't even get to see the process or the procedure, because this will give us hope and as well remind us that while a lot of people are wealthy, the means, the process and the time they've given in might be something we're incapable of.
For example, I use to work on a micro sourcing website for maybe 30 cents per day. A lot of people felt I was crazy spending maybe 2 hours of my time a day to earn 30 cent. To me, it wasn't the money. I need to always make myself realise that money making is difficult Irrespective of how different the internet paints it.
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The Hoax Behind "The Cost"
In my experience, I've seen too much of pressure and it's effect to let it move me. People take about 100 pictures and only post one, maybe where they're having an expensive drink or eating an expensive crab dish, a costly biryani or having a swim in the jacuzzi. It feels like their regular lifestyle, but then maybe it's something they do once in a year. You never know, but the effect on some people would go a long way.
Truth is, some people post these things to seem or look successful, maybe they're still grinding or hustling for the dollar. This isn't always true but sometimes true. Whether you're pressured rightly or pressured wrongly. Pressure to conform to the ideology that making money can be easier that it seems isn't always a mindset we should cultivate.
At the end of the day, a lot of people will make my entire network in a day but this isn't my concern my aim is to be comfortable and financially free to an understand extent and not really to be wealthy persay. My view about making money hasn't changed; some will have it illegitimately easy while some others too will have it legitimately easy.
At the end of the day, no one should make another person feel like making money is easy because generally it's not. To me, there's I don't see any money making venture as being too little or too small. Sometimes the ability to see means in anything prospectful is how we eventually get to build. We all need resilience and patience at some point. Thank you for reading, I hope you have learnt.
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Envy is such a counterproductive and useless feeling. It brings you nothing but misery.
A good write, congrats.
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Thank you, I guess it's more rampant amongst people (envy) more than they even know it, it is counterproductive like you said and doesn't actually work.
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Great post. I also don't care about looking successful because looks doesn't mean anything once your alone. I prefer to use that money to generate wealth and be frugal in some places when possible.
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The urge to look sucessfully is often driven by the need to feel important, sometimes in the lives of people, they're forced to want to create the impression that they're doing well. Sometimes this is What social media sells us. Sorry for the late reply.
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Yea social media has a narrative and people always want to look nice. But it may come at a cost.
I wouldn't say your reply is late. People just get to things when they can.
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It's not easy not to get sucked in, it's always tempting, but reality is way more harsher than social media makes it.
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Like you said, the process matters a lot and the process is not supposed to be overlooked. All we hear is that someone started with $5 but the $5 is now worth $500000. What a world!
It's a pity that many people are putting a lot on the line just because they want to recreate the same story without knowing that there is more to it than the beginning and the end. The process itself cannot be overlooked
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You're exactly correct we hear their Sucess stories yet we don't know of how they have failed or how they've nearly given up or times that were challenging in their lives. Its a certain perogative that we must definitely be wary about.
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I admire your content.
In general, let’s just say 90% of what we see on the social media is fake life. But then most people spend most of their time on it and trying to leave up to the standards thereby getting into debts or dirty works in the process.
The truth is, no one can leave up to social media’s standards because it has no standard. No one can do everything they see on social media.
The people that are capable of living up to the standards don’t even to it, the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Elon Musk.
They don’t flaunt their standards on social media.
I admire your content.
In general, let’s just say 90% of what we see on the social media is fake life. But then most people spend most of their time on it and trying to leave up to the standards thereby getting into debts or dirty works in the process.
The truth is, no one can leave up to social media’s standards because it has no standard. No one can do everything they see on social media.
The people that are capable of living up to the standards don’t even to it, the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Elon Musk.
They don’t flaunt their standards on social media.