Acha Etiendem

Introduction Growing up, I always wondered why there were things I couldn’t have. Perhaps that was a narcissistic way of looking at life, because it meant I prevented myself from seeing the full picture, a picture rooted in empathy, where you acknowledge what you could have but also understand why you don’t have it. As usual, it’s almost midnight, my best time to reflect, and I’m dwelling on this topic of inequality yet again. I don’t want to ramble. I want this to follow a structure, to show clearly the angles I’m approaching this from. So thank you for tuning in, and I hope it’s worth your time. The Individual I looked at my family, and we don’t look exactly alike. I looked at my village, and everyone is different. Everything and everyone differs in some way height, weight, skin color, strength, beliefs, values, and IQ. For some reason, these differences are often treated as simple or trivial, but in reality, they are anything but. So I pondered: did nature err in its design of us? S...

Hey there, thanks for sliding onto my blog. I don't post often, because I now use this place to put down some thoughts that refuse to leave my mind. It used to be because I wanted to generate some Google AdSense income from people like you coming to read. So, my target was always about retaining readers so they keep coming back to my blog; not anymore, unfortunately. Now let's get to the point.  I recently watched the Squid Game show/movie. Every time I observed participants talk about games and money, my mind would wander between fear and greed. I have talked about fear and greed in a previous post on inequality . When some participants voted to end the games, I knew it was fear driving their decision, and those who voted to continue were being driven by greed. Being someone who trades/invests in markets, I could appreciate another aspect of this show that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. I have had positions go up by thousands of dollars and still lost because I held on...