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Cash money shows: Flaunting wealth is a fraud

It is difficult not to suspect a bigger, hidden, nefarious agenda by these seemingly grown individuals of sound mind, who have been posting videos of themselves on social media, showing off with wads of cash. More so, in this age of cashless and cash-lite transactions where it is perfectly possible to breeze through life for days or weeks without touching hard cash or finding the need to. There is always another form of paying for stuff. A lot of quiet, invisible monies is stashed away in bank accounts and mobile money wallets. Yet, people are now seeing the need to withdraw funds, and even exchange into other currencies for use as props on their social media content.
If it was those days gone by when paying for anything had to be in hard cash, it would have been excusable. Perhaps easy to conclude that it was just a few weeks' worth of spending money that had found its way into these excitable hands.

That someone chose to liquefy their monies points to the conclusion that those who are trying to show us their worth must be having something else up their sleeves. That is besides attention-seeking behaviour. Everyone recognizes the struggles of making money and has every right to enjoy the fruits of their sweat, as long as it is not intended to harm others.

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