Assuming u have no health issues and u have been brought up in a poor family … What are the chances of you making it…
From my research only 10% escape the jaws of poverty…
This is attributed mostly by parents who have accepted the choices to be poor , have lost hope … A child imitates the parent and the likelyhood of this trend going on is very high …
As a child we used to live in majengo Thika , an area prone with poverty and social misjustices …
Our next door neighbor was an old lady with grandchildren , she was born in majengo too and had accepted to live in those hard tough conditions , her children n Granny’s still live in majengo though she passed away recently and burried in public cementary…
This is norm for people who have accepted the hustler narrative n believe only a politician can save them from the jaws of poverty…
In my younger years a lady once told me that a man is God’s representative in this world and God has availed to him all that he needs to be successful and so if you see a poor man its by choice.
I still think of this till today and whether there is truth in it.
Have a productive week talkers and mask up. Covid is real.
That is a very complex question that simplistic cliché answers and kikuyu proverbs cannot answer.
note: the questions below might not be entirely related to the topic
Answer the following questions.
1.Define hard work. - who works the hardest the peasant or the investment banker ?
2.Is there a best time to be born ?
3.Are you a product of particular environments & culture?
4.Does success ever happen by itself & Do successful people ever succeed by their own efforts ?
5.Iq - how much does it matter ?
simple experiments
what is the probability that your average 8-4-4 educated son will master C++ & python before 15 or be able to comfortably play nocturnes before 13. - these are skills that a person of average intelligence can perform.
references by Dr Herod
checkout the seven up series - a series of documentary films that follows the lives of individuals from different social economic backgrounds from the time when they were seven years old.
Poverty is genetic. There is a gene to it. Even if you pick a kid from a rich family and throw them into poverty, they will emerge from the ashes and grow rich.
Poverty and wealth mean different things to different people. Some people consider family and connections as wealth rather than material things whereas others "think"material things bring joy and forego connections. So kila mtu na chake.walioridhika maishani tusiwaite fukara ama maskini kwa sababu wanaishi maisha duni machoni mwako.
Maisha ni rangi rangile.