The Discord Between "Hardwork" & "Hard Work": The Level Of Mastery Put Into Selling Scams
Hardwork: The Contradiction Of Meaning
Someone asked me to define "hard work" and my answer was that it just any "thing", ** "legal"** that is considered or envisaged to be rather challenging. I put "legal" in there because nowadays in the society where I come from, there's a discord in the definition of "hard work" and "hardwork". Let's face it.
Most people are depressed by how country as Nigeria can be wealthy and yet the citizens themselves are living in abject poverty, the country itself is a haven for foreign investor to come in, invest and thrive. The difficult situation is why a lot of people have chosen to be indulged in so many illegal ventures and still refer to them as "hard work".
People use poverty and unemployment as an excuse to be involved in scammy ventures. There was a time twitter was agog with news of some certain people who paraded themselves as venture capitalists who would provide huge profits or mad ROI to people who would only invest a little token to them.
People never saw the red flags in this. As a result of this, so many Nigerians lost millions of their money to these people. Now the people at the end of these scams would call themselves hard workers because these scams were carefully crafted before people could buy into them, the efforts put into some of these scams are legendary.
They go as far as paying people to write positive things about them on the internet, they pay people for referrals, they design amazing websites with stunning UI's, they get modern offices, pay people to act rich and use social media to spread the news of this good life.
They pay Instagram influencers good money to talk about them, and sometimes they associate themselves with greedy celebrities in other to actually attain a smirk or a portion of legibility. People run limited background checks and once a person on-line tells them that they've been made wealthy by these ventures, they go ahead to put in their life-saving.
The Mastery Of Con
Internet scammers are on the rise and most times you see these people rake in so much money, it makes people who do legitimate work to question their abilities to reach a certain level in life. In other to sell a scam many people actually "live the lie", they get pictures, videos, buy establish social media accounts, impersonate a celebrity or an Important person.
They go as far back as getting people with accents to match the people they want to scam and sometimes these efforts takes weeks, months or even years for them to sell the perfect scam. The irony here is that this is actually "hard work", the efforts put in to stay financially convincing can be astonishing, the level of craft and the level of mastery and sometimes this makes me ask, do we now have a standard of legal hard work and illegal hard work?
Is it becoming difficult to place a meaning to what hardwork should stand for as a result of situations as unemployment and terrible governance?
Take a lot at another contrasting phenomenon, a disagreement or a sort of discord; You have the people who are actually doing the legal "hard work" they are the ones exploited by the system. They're owed salaries and their gratuities aren't paid, they're not given allowances, and they're spending time each and everyday following the rules without cheating or cutting corners.
They bring "million-dollar" business ideas or innovation to private organizations in exchange for peanuts, when these ideas can equally make them dominant entrepreneurs in their economic environment. These people are the ones not appreciated, they're caught up in debts, unpaid loan with massive interest rates.
The system is terribly harsh on them, but these are hard workers who are actually internally equipped to do well in a better environment, but if these people decide to go illegal, sell scams, become big thieves and use those same skills to defraud people, can we say they have actually remained hardworking, Howbeit, in the wrong way?
The Discord To This Agreement
In the Nigerian financial setting, government don't probe people whose wealth seems questionable, in fact it's become obligatory and customary to confer position of authority on them irrespective of their means of income.
They're considered to be hardworking and hence should an emblem in the society. This is how successful fraudsters are also celebrated, they align themselves with the law in other to appear legitimate and this makes me ask if there should be something as "legally hardworking" and "illegally hardworking", it's a saddening reality. I mean, the setting is not financially thorough, people do questionable things for money and pass off for rather being hardworking.
They call it "hustling" and hence it makes it difficult for us to place a proper valuation of what we can really call "hard work" sincerely, the advent of the internet has brought huge innovations, people no longer need to be conventional to make money, but in a socio-economic setting where it's even difficult to get a decent well paying job, should we cut people a slack when they term illegal ventures as "hard work?"
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intreating point of view do you share and is hive next hard fork coming?
How do you mean?
if you ask me I would say, that those of us who want to do the legal hard work should look at the details put in by illegal folks and copy them
If we can have the patience to build something with an eye for details, to wow the crowd, and make people bring their Life savings, this time, into a non-scam scheme, then, we will faithfully be rewarded
I don't know if you understand what I mean
This part 👇👇 can be copied and modified to suit a legal framework instead of an illegal one
in this time and age, I do not think we need to keep blaming the system or the government for all the things we couldn't achieve
anyone who wants to succeed can do so regardless of what country he comes from. It doesn't matter if the country gives him an enabling environment or not.
At the same time, we all have different destinies, one of us is fated to do well and prosper in scam schemes, the other is fated to prosper in legal schemes
what every human needs to do is find his place, and build his paradise using the resources allocated to him from within him.
Well the reason why your assertions would not be considered by many is that many people put effort into illegal schemes just so they can make outrageous money. It's just like a police failing to do his civic duty of protecting the citizen but will go to the far length of putting in efforts so as to collect bribe.
Its inbued in people, they don't want to put in work into legality because they feel its less rewarding. Its the law of effort, reward and motivation. Its psychological synched.
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Great work man! Well detailed.
If I am to talk about this so called country
Sincere I have nothing to utter. But the little I would spit out should still count as something.
Nigeria! A name when the citizen of the country hear it out they lay curse on the federation itself. No same to higher ups they had a great era during their days as a citizen, but now they made their way up and turn it like it wasn’t the country they grew up from. They forgot about their generations to come
The discord between hardworking and hardworking. Indeed it’s worthwhile. Why are the hardworking ones not recognized but the so called hard workers (illegal) are having it all.
All I can say is maybe with time, the discord could come to a reality amongst us all.
That discord will always be there, sometimes it becomes a motivating factor for even people who are doing legal work. They're embarrassed and intemidiated by people who aren't even doing legal work but seem to be making a lot of progress
God is the only thing we have left in this country for a better future. God help us all.
Well I have always been surprised that the people running the scams won't make their own legit business. At least the convincing ones means they have a lot of knowledge in their field so they would definitely do just as well even without scamming.
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They have the knowledge, just that they feel that the scam will eventually pay them better and hence they put in more effort into that scam hoping that it'll eventually pay them outrageously
LOL the first part really made me laugh. Illegal hard work- basically cheating and conning people. No matter how hard these people work it is still conning.
The fake books and the like come to the aid of such people.
The hardworking, sincere people are the ones who suffer everywhere.
Useless and corrupt governments don't help either.. they help in make the rich richer and loot the poor.
It is not half as bad here and yet we see it all around.