When I was a toddler, I read a story about three thieves who returned from a successful robbery, but before they shared the money, they decided to relax and eat some food, so they asked one of them to go get some food, and while he was gone, the other two criminals plotted to kill him and keep the money for themselves.
Now, in their minds, they both planned to kill each other so that one could get the money. However, this thought process was internal and was only revealed to the readers.
An even bigger twist occurs when the person who went to buy the food devises a plan to poison the other two thieves. Now, he returns from buying the food, and they immediately kill him. They then settle to eat the food, but they both die immediately after eating it, leaving the wealth without an owner.
Money $ Trust
Growing up, I watched a lot of MEXICAN drug movies, and one of the most common themes in these shows is loyalty and betrayal. Why?
Obviously, drugs are a dangerous criminal game that requires a small cabal of people who believe in themselves until one person snitches and gives the police some information in exchange for a short prison sentence.
This is why drug organizations prefer to keep their ring small; they are constantly wary of who they can and cannot trust. Why? Because this is the foundation for criminal organizations' success. They must maintain a ring in which people work together, trust themselves, and even have loyalties that lead them to choose prison over revealing who their ring members are when apprehended.
When you look at the history of drug lords who have been killed or apprehended, it usually only takes one of their insiders to slip away, leak vital information, and everything is over.
When you put things into perspective, you will notice that good or bad cannot thrive unless people decide to flip the switch and become greedy and disloyal.
Sadly, this is how life is; you never know who people are, especially when it comes to money. However, people cannot live alone, nor can we conduct business alone; we must trust colleagues to keep their end of the bargain, we must trust employers to pay at the end of the job, and employers must trust their employees to do an excellent job for the money they will earn, and when trust is broken, especially due to greed and selfishness, trust and loyalty become one of the rarest traits you will ever find.
Why is this so? These two traits are always put to the test, especially when it comes to freedom and money. Obviously, money is one of the most difficult commodities to test people's loyalty with; 90% of people fail, and while some fail because they are tempted with what they require to survive, others fall because of greed.
Some of the most difficult loyalty failures come from people you trust, and because they know you trust them, they always hope you do not find out about their disloyalty, because they know it will be very bad if you do. Now, even though they hope you don't, they will continue to be disloyal even though they know they shouldn't, until maybe you wake up and find out someday.
As I previously stated, greed is the primary motivator for disloyalty. People find someone trustworthy, someone who values loyalty, and instead of putting an end to any disloyal tendencies they have, they take advantage of those who are loyal to them.
The most terrifying type of backstabbing is one in which several people plan to snitch on themselves. It reminds me of a story in which everyone in a village was supposed to pour a bottle of wine into the village's cauldron so they could all feast. One of the villagers reasoned, why not just bring a bottle of water?
After all, everyone will be pouring wine into the cauldron, and no one will notice if a bottle of water is poured in: plot twist, everyone had the same thought and ended up bringing water instead.
People can be creatively cunning and devious, which can easily lead to greed.
It is difficult to remain critical and suspicious of others, but it is the only way you will avoid being caught off guard. We cannot live without trusting people; in fact, trust may be the foundation of our survival; however, when we are betrayed by greedy people, it becomes disastrous. The rule of thumb should be that 99% of people are potential betrayers unless they have repeatedly demonstrated that they are not.
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