Life is Not Fair, But Here’s the One Trick That Will Make You Win Anyway.

Life is not fair for anyone.

It has never been and will never be.

But when life is rigged against you, there’s one move that will turn it around instantly – you MUST play the redemption card.

Come with me, as we break through time and space, from “I’m crushed, life’s unfair” to the moment you slam down the redemption card and say, “Hell yes, I just won at life!

In ancient Egypt, royals, clerks and administrators sipped wine with a view of the Great River Nile while slave workers survived on bread and put in long days hauling material to build the Great Pyramids of Giza.

?Thousands of years later in the Indus Valley of India, another great civilisation arose. By the time it came to its knees, the caste system was solidly in place. With the Brahmins forever at the top and the untouchables forever cursed to their fate courtesy of who they were born to.

Away from Africa and Asia, the Roman Empire wasn’t any different. Some were mighty generals with all the strappings of life before them. Others were slaves and would sometimes end up offered as gladiators to be mauled by wild animals and professional killers just for the fun of the masses.

On the American continent, human sacrifices were part and parcel of the Aztec Empire. The sacrificial human lambs were usually captives unlucky enough to fall under the grip of Aztec warriors.

In Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, thousands of years ago, life was not fair.

Make a monumental jump through the epochs of human history and land in the year 2024. Life is still not fair.

Take a bird’s eye view across the high-income nations of the world. Pick any of your choice – South Korea, the UK or the USA, for example. And one of their major concerns today is a diminishing population, especially of locals. Why? Because life is not fair. Because most of the citizens in these highly industrialized, scientifically advanced, economic heavyweight countries don’t earn enough money nor have the social capital to raise babies without becoming overwhelmed.

On the other side of the world, in the Global South where countries struggle to pay off their international debts and where satellite images show total darkness at night (under-developed electricity grid), the fertility rate on average is five children per woman.

Why is it easy for the Global South to spawn humanity at a sustainable rate in 2024? Because their current social capital is rich and makes raising children a rewarding entity instead of an anxiety provoking, backbreaking that it’s become in the economically rich Global North.

Everywhere you look, LIFE IS NOT FAIR!

Even for you, life is not fair. Maybe, like me, your dad was assassinated when you were a toddler and never grew up with a father. Maybe, like one of my best buddies, a tragic accident took the life of your wife and you had to raise four babies all by yourself. Maybe, like many across the world, a divorce has left you devastated emotionally, psychologically and financially.

Maybe … maybe … so many other bad things have happened in your life. It’s all not fair.

But here is the deal – there’s another side to the coin of life.

The reverse side of life is called the redemption card.

The redemption card gives you opportunities to make up for the unfairness of life. Somehow, all of nature operates on that principle.

In biology, it is known as the Negative Feedback Loop.

Normal biology operates a negative feedback loop – when something goes high, it’s brought back down. When something is low, it’s boosted up again. That is the law of nature – yin and yang; positives and negatives; male and female.

So whereas LIFE IS NOT FAIR, on the flip- side, the REDEMPTION CARD floods you with opportunities at every turn to live happy, successful, fulfilled. And when I say success, I don’t mean a pandering to material success. [Please do not misquote me and claim that I advocate for the "nobility of poverty"—I did not say that becoming a billionaire is a bad thing].

What I mean when I say happy, fulfilled and successful is you taking the opportunities in your contextual environment and becoming the best version of yourself within the restraints of that environment.

If you live in Burundi today in 2024, dreaming of becoming an astronaut up orbit might be a little too farfetched. Yet, in Burundi today, you can dream of studying hard, going to university, becoming an engineer and starting a financially viable construction company in Kenya, East Africa’s current economic power.

Life is not fair in Burundi because it punches way below it’s belt economically. Yet the redemption card in Burundi is that you can successfully become an engineer and move 1,000 kilometres to Nairobi to establish a thriving business.

If you live in the UK today in 2024, dreaming of eating organic food everyday might be a little too farfetched. Yet, in the UK today, you can dream of listening to over 10,000 hours of YouTube content on digital marketing, crafting an e-course and ramping up your sales to a handsome ￡100k a year income after tax, with which you can now afford to eat organic food every single day.

Life is not fair in the UK today because coming across organically grown food is bloody expensive. Yet the redemption card in the UK is that you can become a successful digital marketer and earn a ￡100k annual post-tax income to put organic food on your table every day.

Here is the thing …

…on the days when you feel that LIFE IS NOT FAIR to you, how about you throw your coin in the air, let it land on the other side, and pull out a REDEMPTION CARD?

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