Watch This Young Man Turn To Scamming in This Emotional Short Film (Video)
It is a sad reality that scamming has become quite pervasive in our society.
High levels of unemployment and lack of opportunities have undoubtedly contributed to this scourge plaguing our island.
Though most Jamaicans work very hard to earn a living, there are many, particularly youngsters who have no desire to do the required labour to achieve their dreams.
Scamming has become a relatively easy and quick way for many persons to ‘get rich quick’ and the practice continues to become more regular despite numerous initiatives by authorities to curb it.
Sometimes, dire situations lead good persons to do things they know are wrong as can be seen in this short film below.
The emotional film titled ‘Motive‘ by iKon media, features popular Jamaican comedian Kevin Swaby. Check out his Youtube channel here.
No matter how dire a situation is nothing can make up for doing something wrong
I can relate to this video. I went to university, got my bachelor degree with honors, but still I can’t get a job. I submitted over 500 resumes and application letters, but the few call backs that I got were paying $8000 per week which is basically lunch money and bus fare. When I pay bus fare, buy lunch, pay SLB, pay light and water bill, pay rent and buy groceries, I would have a balance of -$40,000. It is very sad to know that our country is retracting, there are no progress, as such the youths have to resort to illicit acts to make ends meet. I’m trying hard to keep positive but God knows it is hard. Sometimes I wonder why I went to university in the first place if all I can get is minimum wage jobs, I could have gotten those jobs without a degree and I would not have SLB to repay. The job that I’m doing currently when I get pay I only can go back to work for two weeks because I can’t find bus fare and lunch money for the other two weeks. I have to be deepening on my father to pay my rent for me. As I write this post my eyes are fill with tears, because I’m ambivalent at this moment, I don’t know what to do. All my friends are migrating and I was the fool to think that I can stay in Jamaica and make a difference. There is no encouragement or motivation to stay in Jamaica anymore. I love my country, but it is the sad reality.
Mouth make to chat who feels it knows it.
Unless Jamaicans stand up and fight for something, nothing new is going to happen. Robbing people of their hard earn money is wrong. These young people are in a culture of “freeness”. There is no excuse to rip people off, what if it was you?
When it comes to your mother you will do anything even what you don’t want to do. I am thankful that I had God and NO FRIENDS when that time came upon me. Friends influence you to make the WRONG DECISION that later you find yourself regretting but yet you cannot leave it because the evidence is there that you have done it. Yes when my mother started to go down in her sickness I seek God and got the work I needed to help her. One year in the work she dies but I am thankful I was able to be there for her. Work is hard to receive as matter of truth what you need is hard to receive but as long as you have Faith in God and no bad influence friends you will not LIE and STEAL from others. Deceptions is truth but one can only falls into it because of bad influence. A university graduate don’t thinketh themselves to start at the bottom of ladder. They want to start at the top but the reality of life is that for you to have LIFE you must creep before you walk. You must know the things at the bottom which shall enable you to stay at the top. But a university graduate thinketh that their degree make themt o be above when in truth they are no different than one who doesn’t have a degree when it comes to EMPLOYMENT working for another you must start at the BOTTOM. Those who are employing you had to start at the bottom don’t ever thinketh that because of a DEGREE and maybe they don’t have one they are going to sympathize with you. If you don’t start with their bottom salary they don’t want you. You must show your WORTH because everyone who have past the years of forty understand and KNOW their falls and what they had to do, to have what you want to just come and REAP. Employment it is tricky you must know and must accept you have to start at the bottom with or without a DEGREE. Hugs
How can Jamaica need preachers and you go to university to pursue farming? It’s a supply and demand world
Lying and stealing is the foundation of capitalism. Only Jamaicans and other Black people are silly enough to believe trusting in religion will make them rich. The same people working the “good” government jobs in Jamaica (politicians, bureacrats) lie and steal from the public for a living but look down on so-called scammers. The problem with scamming is just like gambling it’s not sustainable and the money tends to get wasted on consumer poison like flashy cars instead of using it for building and growing.
Lying and stealing is the foundation of capitalism. Only Jamaicans and other Black people are silly enough to believe trusting in religion will make them rich. The same people working the “good” government jobs in Jamaica (politicians, bureacrats) lie and steal from the public for a living but look down on so-called scammers. The problem with scamming is just like gambling it’s not sustainable and the money tends to get wasted on consumer poison like flashy cars instead of using it for building and growing.