The big splash

When you've lived in the kind of world that I was thrust into, looking for opportunities to earn becomes second nature.

Nigerians are born into a disadvantage from the beginning because we have a system intentionally set up to keep us down.

Despite this obviously mitigating circumstance that inhibits growth, you'll often find millions of Nigerians doing the most to get ahead, and succeeding as well.

Just like opulence, I've always thought of poverty as a tool used by the political class. A lot of time, it feels like there's this barricade separating the rich from the poor and part of the politician's job is to ensure the barricade stays.

That's why politicians often fight against some no brainier solutions to fixing poverty. It is also important for the silly hierarchical system that's based on whatever silly metric that they use to measure it.

In Nigeria, where corruption is the order of the day, the only thing that matters is the loudness of your money. It is not about being rich, it is about making a big splash, forgive my digression.

Despite this need for the loudness of money, poverty is still the order of the day.

Now like I pointed out, this poverty is a tool but on the flip side, it is also a motivational factor that drives hunger.

Let me put it this way, the fear of being poor, especially because you were born into it, motivates people to get out of it.

The unfortunate thing is that a healthy chunk of internally generated funds is through some illegal means. This doesn't mean we're all criminals here, it just shows a moral decadence in the system.

Is there a quick fix somewhere on the horizon? I think not. The prevalent poverty is intentional and somewhat institutionalized across different strata.

In your family, school, church or just immediate environment, there are people doing the most to make the big splash and then return to obscurity. This big splash of money could be from ill-gotten wealth but in a place where there almost no laws preventing them, they can get away with it and even dial up the self praises.

This need to make a big splash is something that I don't quite understand. In a place where money and basic amenities is so scarce, the idea of making a big splash doesn't sit well with me. Then again, it doesn't sit well with me completely because of my low key nature.

However, I think the reason why people feel the need to make that big splash is embedded in the prevalent poverty I spoke of.

After spending a large portion of their lives in sadnesses and omnipresent poverty, touching a little money could be intoxicating. Never mind the wastage; encouraged by family and immediate society, this is their moment under the sun and it may never come again in this lifetime.

That's the thinking process that goes against the business mindset that focuses on steady growth and reinvesting any spare. It's something that has kept us down for a long time around here and if you buck the trend, you'll find yourself ostracized or called "stingy" for not showing out.

That's the societal pressure I was talking about. However, I hope more people will see the light and grow out of it.

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