Elders here talk a big game lakini most of them are wage slaves pale kwa muhindi making 15k. Ni kama those real estate channels on Youtube where the presenters say things like “15M only” yet they’ve never even seen what 100k looks like.
I think people who’ve seen and made money know enough about how hard it is to make a single million so they’d never disrespect money the way paupers do. Motherfuckers be typing from their bed sitters saying “bana 10M hii Kenya ni pesa kidogo sana”.
My friend, with your 15k salary, it’ll take you 60 years to make 10M and that’s with saving every single shilling. Na mheshimu pesa nyinyi watu. You’ll never make money if you have zero respect for it. Talking about how 2M ni pesa kidogo sana. Na mwafreeka ni kama hajui maana ya pesa.
I agree with you. I have in life stopped hanging out with someone coz of their impulse spending habbits. Yes it’s their money yes it’s theirs to do whatever they want. And they can do that where I’m not so I remove myself.
i wont stand that intentional destruction of resources. Same person be asking me to guarantee them a soft loan. Pale Sacco nasema Acha ikae.
The relationship of some people with money is soo poor it’s disrespectful and i refuse to be part of that. Eventually they will need loaning of some kind. Seen it many many many times.
As an owner of capital, it really riles me kusikia talkers wakidharau a million kwanza @Gaines Nyambura. Bar grand corruption and high risk illegal trade which is a preserve of a few, it is really difficult to make a million huku kwa vumbi. People make them but not casually as some talkers would want us to believe.
How much would you need to earn or have to live a comfortable (not posh) life in this city if you are a family man with 3 kids?
1M is a respectable sum to have, but its not life-changing money as you want to put it.
A barebone decent 4bed+DSQ 50km from CBD in a secure area will set you back at least 10M!! Two basic locally used toyotas without major mechanical issues will set you back 1.5M at least. Add another 500k for bare minimum furniture, electronics, tanks, etc. You are already down 12M na hata hujahesabu savings and investments. Then kuna the monster which is the income needed to sustain that middle class lifestyle of five people na sio ati uko Karen ama Muthaiga.
That’s why 99% of people working in Nairobi today will retire in the village because they won’t afford to retire here even with their few millions.
1M is certainly better than nothing and it is a respectable amount of money to have. It can save you from many bad situations. But don’t act like it is life-changing money because its not.
Nimenotice most people, both online (like you) and offline tend to judge the correctness of a person’s argument based on their socioeconomic status instead of the facts they present. You attack the person instead of the argument. That peasant in Kibera could be right and the guy in Muthaiga can be wrong on certain issues.
The guy in your post, is he wrong because he lives in a bedshitter, or is he wrong because his argument doesn’t make sense?? Because going by your “logic”, that guy working for a Mhindi for 15k is always wrong when arguing against the loaded guy in Rosslyn.
Most Kenyans are exactly like you. That’s why its easy to con them if you have a big car, polished English, and an expensive suit. “He is rich, so he must be right, and we can trust him”. Like sheep to the slaughter, they fall for the trick and get finessed.
That’s how the 0.0001% of Kenyans should live. Not the Kenyan middle-class. You’re using western contexts to determine a Kenyan lifestyle. A middle class Kenyan is a perpetual renter whose kids go to public school and get healthcare at the country hospital. In this particular context, 1M is a fortune. You don’t live in Europe so stop using their metrics of a house in suburbia and kids in private school within the Kenyan context.
@Gaines is a know-it-all villager who has zero understanding of the environment he lives in. He wants to use European and American metrics to evaluate Kenyan society. Bure sana.
Its very easy for guys like me to exploit and take advantage of guys like you because you worship rich people and automatically assume that everything they say is right without second thought.
