I am always amazed at the audacious naivety of youth.
In recent times on this site, this has taken the form of deriding old foggies like me, @gashwin, @Clawmatsu, @It’s Le Scumbag etc etc as being possible financial failures who come here to exorcise our demons.
The narrative by young talkers has been: if you don’t have tonnes of money by 40 and are still struggling you are a ferking failure.
Just yesterday one brat wrote:
“Money is not even in the top five for me, it only becomes a problem if you don’t have it and you don’t stick to your lane or [COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)]you’re like in your late 30s and still struggling.”
Well, well, well.
I wouldn’t think people struggling financially at say 38 years would be such a surprise in a country where 70% of the people earn less than 50K a month, or thereabouts. In fact, if data is anything to go by, most of us will be struggling THROUGH-OUT life. It’s nothing to be ashamed really.
The tragedy for our youth is that they have been blinded by such outliers like Zukabag and other social media entrepreneurs to think tha it is normal to make tonnes of money by 30. Yes, it is possible, but this is the exception rather than the rule. Young people in Kenya need to be real if our country is to have long-term prosperity. Its statistically highly unlikely that a young person, ON AVERAGE, wil be worth more than $20,000 by the time you are 35. No matter how hard you bet or rob, slay and con your way. Chances are that those who do the later will simply get shot or die in crazy situations like Sharon and Keino.
Of course you could say that all this is from a salty failure. That’s your take. Doesn’t matter really.
Now, let me end with a grown-up statistic: IN the good old USA, the average age for a person to become a millionaire, that is: ASSETS - LIABITIES = more than Ksh100 million is 58 years for women and 59 for men.
Bwana @gashwin and @Meria Mata , you still got like 10 years to make this average. Just stay real, and watch the youngins self-destruct in an orgy of stupid social medialism.