People, that is Uber CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi. He is on a train – and reading a book. Sure, it is possible that the UN General Assembly might have pushed all Uber drivers out of New York (!) for the crusader of ride hailing to be advertising subways and trains. For me though, there is a message: America has a denominator for all humans.
Otherwise, how do you explain that a man who runs a company which can use just 40% of its value to buy all the stocks in the Nigerian Stock Exchange can touch the train? Nigeria needs to look at its sheer values as a nation!
I see CEOs of insurance companies which generate less than $8 million annual revenue flying first class on international flights, out of Lagos, and could not understand where the conviction came from.
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Poverty of the mind does so much damage on its host, it makes you see everything from the lens of desperation and unquenchable desires.
Those born into wealth whose ancestors were also wealthy, rarely waste money, because they were trained to understand wealth as fortune bestowed on them, so even when they work hard to maintain the family fortunes, they still see all their possessions as privileges, and they never brag about them.
The challenge is often from the new found riches, where you have concentration of rich fools, they were neither trained in the things of money nor understand its purpose. To this second group of people, it’s always about the fear of not wanting to return to poverty, and in that desperation, they steal, loot, acquire all manner of things they do not even understand their functions; they want to taste every food, drink every wine, visit everywhere, because their better life embodies lack.
It’s a long walk to freedom, because neither poverty nor wealth is defined by size of bank account, rather by richness of one’s mind; an eternal paradox of some sort.
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