Society teaches us to undervalue our time and skills, accepting poverty as normal. The speaker shares examples: selling a car worth €10,000 for €2,000, refusing low-budget corporate work, and paying €2,000 to renew certifications. He argues we should price our services fairly and give free help only to causes that genuinely need it.
Hello, friends. In the last video, I gave you some information on the elements, training, qualifications and how to choose them to maximize your return on investment. Some people reacted badly to this video and said, yeah, it's all about the money and all that. Okay, that's good. That's good, that's good. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something very clear so that we can agree. Imagine that you're selling your car and the Argus rating. The value of this car is €10,000. So I come to you and you ask me, how much am I going to sell my car for? €10,000. So what do I tell you? Listen, when you sell your car, the most important thing is not to maximize the income from your car. It's not necessarily to sell it at its maximum rating. It's selling it to someone who will take care of it, someone who really needs it, someone who will enjoy this car. They'll take their family on vacation with them and all that. And you'll make someone happy. There you go. Once I've convinced you of that, I'll buy the car from you for €2,000. Okay? So when people denigrate you in front of your child, it often starts with your parents. It's called societal programming. What are they programming you for? They're programming you to become poor. They're programming us all. I've been there. They're programming us to become poor. They're programming us to sell our time, our intelligence, to sell our qualifications, our skills, our lives, literally. To sell them at a bargain price, to sell them to the forces of money. To make millionaires. It's not us who will become millionaires, but to make millionaires. And what are they going to tell you? You'll be told. It's like the story of the money and the car. The important thing in life is not to chase money, huh? Leave the money to your lords. The idea is that the most important thing in life is to sell your skills at the lowest price, but to derive a benefit from them. A benefit that cannot be measured with money. Being happy, a job well done. The pride of having done something good. The pride of improving the world. Okay? You're improving the world. While the shareholders aren't improving the world, they're improving their portfolio. With your blood, with your energy. So I'll tell you something. With the forces of money. You talk about money, that's all. If there is an orphanage. Look, if an orphanage contacts me and says, we have a network problem, we have a problem with our servers, we have a problem. Can you Help us, please. We have no money. Don't pay you. We are ruined. We have nothing. But of course I will help them. Of course I help them. I help them. I help them for free. It was given to you for free. Given for free. But I give for free to those who are in need, to the needy, to associations, to people who are really giving to others. But I'm not going to take a company that is listed on the CAC 40. I'm not going to take a company that is traded on the stock exchange and then give them my time, give them my intelligence at a low price. Because it's good, because it makes me happy. No, not at all. Either they pay or they crash. You know, I recently renewed my CCNP certifications from Cisco. I have two. I also have two CCNAs, plus two or three other certifications from this company. I renewed them. Do you know how much I paid? The renewal is all €2,000. I paid €2,000 out of pocket to renew them. What do you think? Do you think I'm going to take prisoners when I negotiate a salary? Do you think when a company contacts me and says, yes, we need someone for this or that? Well, yes, but it's about budget and all that. I'm hanging up on you. Budget issue. He's talking about budget. I'm hanging up on you, that's all. You're the forces of money. I didn't invent capitalism in the first place. Basically. I didn't create it. No, okay? We've killed people, we've created wars in the world for that. You know, I'll tell you something the forces of money are always very good at. I'll give you an example. You take it. You go to a hotel. I'm going to a hotel, okay? I'm going to a hotel. I'm there for work. The company paid €300 a night, okay? Huh? Which is huge. I get to the room, what does it say? There's a little sign there on the bed. A piece of paper, dear customer, to protect the climate. We're not going to change the sheets and we're not going to change the towels during your stay. Wait, wait, wait, guys. You took a piece of land, you raised it. You brought in tons and tons of bricks, stones, metal. You brought in workers from Laos, in India and all that. You built a tower that's I don't know how many stories high, right? You brought in marble from Italy. You brought in products from China, the United States, from all over the planet, okay? Your system, your stuff consumes I don't know how much in terms of energy, water, space, all that. And the moment it comes to providing me with the service that you really took a lot of money for, then you think you have scruples. That's when you have scruples. That's when you say, oh, yes, that's right. It's about ecology, the planet, the climate. We use this kind of argument all the time. I'm going to get out of here with their music because I'll tell you why. Because on YouTube you can hear this music in the background. You can barely hear it, okay? You know that it can lead to the deletion of this video, okay? Because there's a system, there's an algorithm, and always the forces of money when we talk about it. There's an algorithm that can say that this video, because there are three notes that were heard in the background, can say that this video belongs to them, okay? This video belongs to them. And they can either demonetize it or let it be monetized and take the monetization income themselves or have it deleted or they have a lot of tools at their disposal. So here I come near the water so that the sound of the water increases. It's like when we have microphones in the room, right? So I was saying the goal societal programming is about making you. It's about making us poor. Because when our lords send their children to private schools that cost €50,000, they're not going to teach them to just accept the minimum and do things for others and be generous and all that. No, they're teaching them how to use us. So we're going to have to be really, really serious about these things. There you have it, my friends. That was just a little thing that struck me. And I'll come back another time with more advice. Thank you very much and see you soon.
