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title | "POVERTY, HARDWORK, BACKGROUND?" |
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body | "**The real truth about poverty.**
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This post was inspired by a conversation which we had on twitter some time ago. It was argued that poor people are more hardworking than the rich but yet have little or nothing to boast of; yes, poor people work and hard, but what exactly do you consider as hard work, carrying blocks of cement? Selling in the traffic? Those menial jobs can only do so much in a ‘smart’ person’s life. But if you throw this question to me ‘are poor people that hard working?’ – My answer is no. I’ll elucidate.
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If your conception of hard work has to do with time and money, then I put it to you that there is no way on earth poor people can be as hard working as they are posed to be and that is entirely not their fault. It is a capitalist definition and the system is rigged. Yes, a poor person might be given a menial job to execute immediately and he does that perfectly well and gets a wage but does he have enough resources to make him like, rich? Do you consider how little spare time poor people have and how much rest they get or how little money they use to start up something for themselves, or do you think about the little support they get from the community and the how little their audience and their social circle is. Imagine if you considered how much poor people actually do instead of assuming that poverty means they must (not) be working hard enough. Using a moderately rich person in Nigeria as a case study, if a man decides to be a professional photographer, he definitely has to get a camera first (about 250,000naira), after purchasing a camera he has to go for a photography training where he learns how to make proper use of his equipment (150,000naira) when said man is done with training he has to get other equipment which was introduced at the training (200,000). So let’s say for an average man to become a professional photographer he needs more than half a million naira. See? Consider a poor man with dreams of being a photographer with no funds and no ‘family backup or support’, his dreams are shattered and pushed down the drain. Is he hardworking or not?
Hard work requires time and money (at least most of the time) and a poor man most definitely does not have one of each. If you are screaming to a person to be hardworking, how about provide him with his needs to do that? You cannot tell a laborer to build you a house without the materials, you cannot tell a poor lady to go hawk bread without providing the bread to be hawked. You cannot say a poor person is not hardworking if you have not actually taken time to give them an actual work.
I hope you get to learn something from this and don't forget to upvote and leave your thoughts. You can follow me for more fabulous posts.
Yours,
Queen of hearts 💕,
@soorefunmi." |
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