There's this sense of betrayal when loyalty is being tested, loyalty works with the concept of opportunity cost. This is because most times it's often difficult to share loyalty, it's either you are "more" loyal to a cause, and you're "less" loyal to another cause, simultaneously people find it difficult to sit on the fence. However, we've, so many people have come to understand the cost of loyalty, it's so expensive that when it ends in lack of appreciation or betrayal it's always difficult to look at the opportunity cost of other people.
Ventures or even situation which we have sacrificed for what we consider to be a much more viable cause. One thing I've come to understand is, people feign loyalty to more than one cause, simply because they fear the repercussions of being solely loyal and ending up rather disappointed. Disappointment is feedback to the feeling of betrayal, sometimes disappointment is what brings people to the reality that loyalty doesn't guarantee certainty.
In life, however, people who experience betrayal often begin to see blindness in their initial choices. They question their cognitive abilities to make the best decisions, they feel "less" human because they're in denial. The pain of dedicating their lives, their struggles and their energies, only for it to go unnoticed, unappreciated and totally underrated. You see, when it comes to money, betrayal and loyalty is a dichotomy.
They directly juxtapose themselves while being directly proportional. Sometimes people are blind to those who are loyal to them, because loyalty is at the bottom of their scale of preference. One of the reasons why some folks fails to recognize loyalty is their innate desires for the love of money. I have done a lot of business with a few people in the past and irrespective of the fact that their contribution is as equal as mine, the love they have for money made them blind to that effort that I also put in.
It's difficult for you to find people who would see the essence of money and weigh it in with their appreciation of the loyalty in people. For me, the height of greed is when a person begin to feel that they're the only ones capable enough of handling maximum resources, they attribute their success to their abilities, failing to see the people who played a huge role in their lives.
The act of unappreciativeness is why loyalty seems overrated and people are sometimes lost in wanting everything, they end up overrating the contributions of others to their cause. Lately, I've come to understand that appreciating loyalty is not definitive, it's often variable; depending on the people, the circumstances or the situation. This means that people choose to pay back loyalty with something appropriate, this is why it's often difficult to convince or show others the efforts of loyalty because they choose to either see it, or ignore it.
Loyalty isn't a thing to be underrated, because it is a driving force that occurs without conditional incentive. Sometimes loyalty can be bought with money, other times it cannot. However, one of the reasons why people auction their loyalty is because they've been underappreciated or made to believe that their contributions hardly matters. It's why a lot of people develop personal convictions towards something but end up doubting the essence of their loyalty in the first place.
It's very dangerous to be surrounded by fake loyalty, but then the world rewards fake loyalty because it's deceptive, catchy, and it typically tries to hide the fact that it's Just a shiny spark that comes alive with the degree of incentivization. This is to say that when loyalty becomes incentivized, it can mostly bring out the best or worst in people, but in life, the psychoanalysis of money is an education that is essential in building brands that might end up becoming industries.
It's terrible to lose loyalty simply because one is blinded by greed. The urge to own everything is why the world is displacing loyalty in exchange for * fatter pocket*. Nevertheless, money corrupts and having responsibility with money eventually brings more corruption. The world is filled with erratic people who make decisions streamlined and narrow-minded, judging every possible perception with money.
A lot of people would argue that they're not greedy, but they're compromising every sensible principle. It's terrible to know that, when people have money, it kills the need to improve other important aspects of their lives. Their friends make excuses for their toxicity because they're loyal to that money and scared of the money being used as a constructive weapon to intimidate them. At the end of the day, true loyalty is often cast away at the expense of wanting to personally own it all.
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As we sat in the office that day, we ended up talking for hours about his soul, and the afterlife. Always a greedy man, he worshiped the dollar bill he wouldn't be able to take with him.
Instead of spending his last months alive with his family and making amends to those he wronged, he threw himself into his first love: money.
One thing I'll always be thankful about him is that he knew I was an honest man who wouldn't say what he wanted to hear as everyone else did. It was hard for him to get good data out of people, because the sycophants whould whisper sweet nothings into his ears when what he really needed was to be told the truth.
When he hired me, I told him I would be unlike the other employees and would always be honest with him. I think he respected me for that, as we sometimes had loud disagrements when he'd ask me to do something shady and I refused. This was before I found out he had cancer, which he told me about the following year.
True loyalty is huge to me as it means more than just doing what someone else wants. Sometimes it means speaking up when no one else will. He thanked me that day in the office for being truthful to him, and being someone who's word he could always count on.
Many times he'd call me over to find out the truth of a situation, as he knew I'd never lie to him. We do ourselves and others a service by being men of our word and speaking up when the time is right. That's true loyalty.
(sorry this "comment" was so long, I have to stop writing post-length responses. But on this Christmas day, your article made me think of the old seadog, he was a tough man, and I hope he's in a better place now.)
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No... no need to apologize for your comment I basically believe it was revealing. I had worked a lot with people who had this blood-lust for money and one thing I have realised is that this kind of people hardly values loyalty and this is because it becomes difficult for them to value something they wouldn't value above money.
I think it was definitely unwise of him to still see the essence of money despite the fact that he wouldn't be alive to spend it, it's a bizarre situation with people who loves money and are loyal to it.
Needless to say, we need honest people in life.. our lives in general. On a place like hi Maxwell respective of money we need transparent people as well because that transparency is actually the future of the chain.
Thanks for that one.
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True, many people are loyal because they are paid to do so, and if there is a higher price for their loyalty, then it can be bought.
Reason why most rich people have fake friends. It is because they are loyal to their money.
Btw, merry Christmas brother..I am in Lagos, how our hangout go be na.
We all have how our Loyalty can be Incentivized but then, better to understand the most important of all and that's studying what we're loyal to and actually staying true to it.
Sorry for the late reply there. Actually, I've spoken with K, feels like we agree it would be on the 29th, that should do it though. What do you think?
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29th is fine for me. We would discuss on WhatsApp..
Loyalty is quite tough and it's easy to stay loyal when things are going good. However people change and their priorities also change so they end up having to weigh their options. So I find that people who jumped in without thinking things through are more likely to just leave.
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Like you've said, it's totally tough as well. I do believe loyalty has its essence when it's majorly tested, if it's not tested then I wouldn't call it loyalty. However you're right, people are always having to reconsider their options.
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I feel like most people's loyalty can be bought, mine including and it might not be with money but it is something that can be gotten, so loyalty to me isn't a term I hinge on.
Loyalty is everything. It stems from the aspect of our personality to what makes us incentivizable. I feel that everyone mostly have a reason to be loyal, however it doesn't have to be extrinsic.
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That's true, it is very essential in our society but loyalty on its own is very complex because most time you are in control of what makes people loyal to you.
It can be dangerous to have people who are loyal to your resources. You know
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Very dangerous.
Merry Christmas @josediccus
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Loyalty is one of the difficult thing in life, most people are loyal because is beneficial and that is why is difficult to find someone that is truly loyal to a person, project and even to God
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