Jack Ma says: "If you put bananas and money in front of monkeys, the monkeys will choose bananas because they don't know that money can buy a lot of bananas. In reality, if you offer people a job and a business opportunity, they will choose the job because most people don't know that a business can generate more money than a salary.
One reason the poor remain poor is that they are not trained to recognize opportunities. They spend a lot of time in school, and what they learn there is to work for a salary rather than to work for themselves.
Profits are better than salaries because salaries allow you to make a living, but profits can create wealth for you."
Jack Ma says: "If you put bananas and money in front of monkeys, the monkeys will choose bananas because they don't know that money can buy a lot of bananas. In reality, if you offer people a job and a business opportunity, they will choose the job because most people don't know that a business can generate more money than a salary.
One reason the poor remain poor is that they are not trained to recognize opportunities. They spend a lot of time in school, and what they learn there is to work for a salary rather than to work for themselves.
Profits are better than salaries because salaries allow you to make a living, but profits can create wealth for you."
At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegramβs user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash β worth more than a billion dollars β to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesnβt do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russiaβs most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a βlegitimateβ law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. Markets continued to grapple with the economic and corporate earnings implications relating to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. βWe have a ton of uncertainty right now,β said Stephanie Link, chief investment strategist and portfolio manager at Hightower Advisors. βWeβre dealing with a war, weβre dealing with inflation. We donβt know what it means to earnings.β The Security Service of Ukraine said in a tweet that it was able to effectively target Russian convoys near Kyiv because of messages sent to an official Telegram bot account called "STOP Russian War." Meanwhile, a completely redesigned attachment menu appears when sending multiple photos or vides. Users can tap "X selected" (X being the number of items) at the top of the panel to preview how the album will look in the chat when it's sent, as well as rearrange or remove selected media.
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