Nimewatch interview ya ghetto youths from Kayole pale shittizen and there were some obvious recurrent themes.
They were all between 18 and 25 and they all had children.
How exactly can such youth escape poverty if they burden themselves with parental responsibilities at such a young age?
The odds of escaping poverty as a ghetto dweller are already low enough as it is. When they add children into the mix they cement their position as permanent ghetto dwellers.
It is a very sad reality that these ghetto kids don’t know about.
They are never going to escape the ghetto life with other mouths to feed and aging parents to look after. Their fate is sealed.
Obviously, there will be a few blockheads who will try and discredit my argument using the few exceptions that beat the odds.
Ghetto mentally , physically and psychologically, continuously rapes this young bloods ,you need the tenacity of a samurai to even survive in the ghetto past 30 years.
When you see suffering ,loss and failure you become a nihilist and lose life focus, unlike watoto wa rich kids who see success and enjoy the fruits of success and are motivated to pursue success and they surely get it
Patience and putting in the time and effort for self improvement ndio hawafunzwi especially the boy child, quick money making hustles can’t get you out of the ghetto ,you need a payable skills, talent or extra ordinary brains to make it out of the ghetto and this takes time and effort to reach such level d
They all fall in the same trap. Getting kids before they can even sustain themselves. Once the kids get kids, its game over mostly. Their mobility is limited, geographically, professionally and consequently financially.
This is just guesswork, but if you are born and raised in the ghetto:
You have a 50/50 chance of escaping if you don’t have kids while in the ghetto.
You have a 10% chance if you get the first kid while in the ghetto and odds worsen as the number of kids rises.
How do you escape the ghetto? Learn a highly marketable skill, or start a highly profitable business.
But here is the problem. Both require time and money, and if you have mouths to feed, you do not have time or money. It is an endless loop like a chicken and egg problem. Even if you get some money, your risk tolerance will still be low because you will have to choose between paying fees/rent/food, or risking it in a business that might never pay off. If you give a guy from the ghetto a small sum like 250k, and he has three children, what do you think he will do? He will automatically consume it eg buy uniforms, food, fees, etc. He can’t afford to take a risk in a business that might never pay off. Meanwhile, a bachelor in the ghetto can afford to take that risk in business because he has all the time in the world to make it work.
So basically, if you get kids when in the ghetto without any marketable skills, you are fuaked. By the time those kids become adults, you will already be too old to escape the matrix.
A single decision of having children at the wrong time causes a big compounding negative effect that can destroy most people’s dreams.
Ghetto is subjective. Moreover most of Nairobi is just one big, disorganized slum. Unless you have assets which can comfortably cater for all your lifetime needs, you are one road accident or disease away from being a ghetto dweller. Case in point, my friend was involved in an accident which left him paralyzed except for one limb, and mute. His wife has been the one working and catering for their children and his medical bills for the last 3 years which makes her a saint because other people would have walked away. Be humble.
Plus the vicious cycle of poverty. Being poor is most times more expensive than being rich.
Maisha imenipiga kumi twice nikajipata ghetto. Maji mtungi moja ni 10.
Some toilets za ploti ni pay to use.
Huku Embu na 50k naishi maisha soft sana. Side hustles ni retirement savings tu.
Here we go again. This thread is not about your feelings. Its just facts. And you fit in the category of bonobos that love quoting outliers to discredit valid points.
The Chinese understood this and they implemented the one-child policy long enough to escape the third world matrix. Now, even after relaxing the policy, people still don’t want kids they cant feed in China.
Do you have long term disability insurance or a net worth in the millions? If not, then you’re in the same category of ghetto. Fact. You’re not better off than them
Elder… Its all about scale and proportions at the day.
A person who lives hand to mouth living in the Ghetto is likely to dig himself deeper into his misery. Thats the point you don’t want to admit.
A poor person reproduces faster than his income. Fact.
Its the work of the government to prevent this.
As @Azor Ahai rightly said, China knew this a long time ago to the point of taking seemingly draconian measures to prevent peasants from breeding at a faster rate than the country’s economy.