pansophist:


I don't think migration is an expression of helplessness, but more of hopelessness. Nigerians move abroad because living in Nigeria is like pouring water in a basket, all your efforts don't hold. Criminals live better than the good man. The system rewards the worst in people.

Besides, not only the Western countries our kinsmen migrate to, but even those that migrated to Western countries must have paid their dues, such as paying taxes to qualify for benefits in the first place.

To be self-reliant, you need a working system. If you think you don't need the input of a healthy society for self-reliance, see if you can go live in the middle of a forest and rely on yourself completely. We are interdependent.

But how I understood what Cave is saying through that passage is that suffering is just part of life, and your money can't rescue you from it. Money can alleviate, not rescue. So in essence, we all need help.

For a start, we will all die, and we don't know when. Or maybe plagued by a sickness that has no cure, which makes your money irrelevant. Or maybe found out in your 70s that two of your kids aren't yours, or maybe a billionaire as wealthy as you deal with you with his own political connection. How will your wealth help you here?

Or maybe hit by a truck, or your private jet crashed or your wife poisoned you, or your bodyguard killed you, or your country was at war and you became poor overnight. There are so many things that can happen to a person that make their wealth useless.

That's how I understand that sentence, that we all need help in reality. It is the difference between material suffering and existential suffering. Your money can help materially, but not existentially. In reality, we are really helpless.

This also makes me think bragging and showing off is a fool's idea of glory. Such a person havent seen real problems, that's why. If correct problem wey go gym handle you, you go humble.

Olawade24:


Wait a second, but been a traditional is also a faith on his own. I don't get you. You seem to kind of contradict the whole thing. I taught as long you make penchant to a higher being is also a call to salvation on his own.

Or will you say because you a christian then a Muslim is a bad faith or is not of God. Pls let me know?

Olawade24:

Pls I want you to make emphasis on that above statement, you mean someone will abandon a million monthly paying job and start from scratch. For real?

LandMann:


You're one of the colonial agents sent to keep feeding religious gibberish into the subconscious of Nigerians and Africans at large

Your colleagues are in other threads sowing seeds of ethnic hatred.

Kindly keep quiet as you've been identified and tagged

Persephone1:
Lemme finish my sugarcane fess, I will be back to comment

Persephone1:
Lemme finish my sugarcane fess, I will be back to comment

Olawade24:

Pls I want you to make emphasis on that above statement, you mean someone will abandon a million monthly paying job and start from scratch. For real?

Eunoiaa:


As if I knew! So this thread was written by your bobo.

When I saw the topic and your comment, and I saw it wasn't the usual man/woman kind, I was wondering why you commented, and I thought (who?) panso fist must have written it.

He wasn't the one, but it turned out to be someone close.

My bobo ke? Maggie no put me for trouble o I'm boboless on Nl biko. Of course no doubt I like intelligent minds but it's just that

The thread is a breath of fresh air 🤣

Persephone1:
My bobo ke? Maggie no put me for trouble o I'm boboless on Nl biko. Of course no doubt I like intelligent minds but it's just that

The thread is a breath of fresh air 🤣

MSN1:
The Migration to other parts of life is one thing that is very difficult but it is the best way to get to your dreams.
The few people that had/will have the courage to move out of their zone MUST experience greatness.
I laugh at people telling me to be comfortable with less than 100k job, saying it's a life time job because these people don't know that very few top successful people abandoned millions paying job to start from nothing and rose to Everything.

CaveAdullam:
1. What you'll become in life is positively correlated with your family background and the surrounding environmental influences.

The possibility of breaking out from a vicious cycle of familial poverty is ultra-thin. There are high chances of dying poor when you are procreated from poor gametes.

2. Geography determines your destiny. The place where you spend most of your time is a factor that either helps you achieve your dreams or die a dreamer.

Poorer and undeveloped countries have the highest number of squandered talents and frustrated ambitious people. The only way these people can manage to succeed in the most reasonable ways is through:

A. Migration to a better geography.

B. Wrestling with ugly powers withholding change.

However, both are difficult.

3. People show sympathy out of pretense. Doing so makes them feel alright and not because they want to help you. When you seek their help, they degrade you.

4. You can't gain something from anyone when you lack something. Appeal to pity isn't a better strategy. People would rather help a rich man who loses some investment than a poor man struggling for breakfast.

Reason: People believe that in a short time, the rich will bounce back. But the poor man has no hope.

If you're poor, find anything to hold on to and leverage. But some do leverage vices though, which ends in trouble + it's a myopic strategy to success.

5. People don't value wisdom. The beautiful and charming fool is more appreciated than the sage. People only value wisdom when they are in dire need. But when they've convalesced, they are lured by glittering masks.

6. You're loved to the extent of how usable you are. The higher the attraction towards you is an indication of the volume of value you produce.

Ants go to sugar; moths to light bulbs; parasites to healthy hosts.

You're not loved. You're just a tool. A means to an end.

To solve this problem, start a relationship as a business and see if it will end in kindness. Except in conditions where the opposite end is starting with kindness.

7. You want favors. You want promises. Because they're shortcuts to your desires. Because they tend to make you want to work less. However, they're dangerous.

Unfulfilled promises and favors drain you more than making several trials and attempts. It blocks your ambitions and reduces your speed.

Don't make promises. Give at that moment when you can. Don't tell anyone tomorrow when you don't know if you'll see tomorrow. And don't take promises to heart.

8. Everyone you'll come across in life will tell you they have a high preference for truth. But what they are trying to say is "they have a high preference for statements, ideas or opinions that don't offend their ego". Tell them something that runs counter to their sentiments and they'll unleash hades on you.

The average person is either a con man or a liar. Probably, both.

9. Nobody is coming to help you. Don't think of any. On a deeper level, all humans need help.

You'll see help along the way. But start to walk alone.

10. Contentment is a hoax. You think you'll be satisfied if you have just one. And if you gain one, you want two to make you feel comfortable; three to have some in your reservoir; four to save for the future; five to help your loved ones; six to boost your ego; seven to make you become a ruler...it never ends.

Bonus: Gift is a form of power. Cunning people used it to bid time. They're coming to leverage that gift for a needed job. Make an exchange when necessary as it saves you from being a pawn on people's boards.

Thanks.

Bonus: Gift is a form of power. Cunning people used it to bid time. They're coming to leverage that gift for a needed job. Make an exchange when necessary as it saves you from being a pawn on people's boards.

emmaodet:


Or in another way, most of humans are not self reliant.
Very very very few percentage of humans are self reliant.
Reason why you will see people running away from Nigeria because no free education/school, no free health care and no free handout at old age.
They run away from Nigeria just to rely on the government of the west. Hardly self reliant.
The ones at home are hoping to bank and count on their children to support them at old age.
Either way, whether 3rd world or 1st world, it is either they are relying on government or children and that is bad enough.
Outsourcing your existence at the mercy of others

Oshin56:
to be born poor is your parent fault, but to die poor is your fault.

abba190:
na lie

Oshin56:
you have to prove it, don't just come here to say na lie. Is it your parent fault not to think outside the box...

abba190:
there is nothing outside the box

Oshin56:
ok sir, as your lordship pleases...

abba190:
ok keep thing nd searching outside the box while the treasure is inside the box

JESHAL007:
@CaveAdullam, longest tym, hope you are fine and how is family, going through this your thread and taking your advice seriously,currently learning a digital skill as I'm rounding up Nysc, but my dream is entrepreneurship, I love economics, but you have very few writes up about it, I make research about it online but it's not as nuanced, balanced and realistic as your writeups, I want to know;
1) How does technology revolutionise entrepreneurship in Nigeria and globally
2) what realistic measures can government put in place to encourage entrepreneurship
3) What can improve SMEs in Nigeria
4) What economic indexes do we use to measure prosperity
5) Do elites have a role to play in encouraging entrepreneurship and what are they?
6) What one can do to effectively start and run a business in third world nation

I know you are a busy man with work and programming but I just want to get one of the best write ups on entrepreneurship in Nairaland, too much information online but not much in substance

I would really appreciate your response

CaveAdullam:


Good evening, chief.

I am fine.

Hope you are fine too.

I will respond to this soon.

They are good questions for discourse.

CaveAdullam:


Good evening, chief.

I am fine.

Hope you are fine too.

I will respond to this soon.

They are good questions for discourse.

JESHAL007:
@CaveAdullam, longest tym, hope you are fine and how is family, going through this your thread and taking your advice seriously,currently learning a digital skill as I'm rounding up Nysc, but my dream is entrepreneurship, I love economics, but you have very few writes up about it, I make research about it online but it's not as nuanced, balanced and realistic as your writeups, I want to know;
1) How does technology revolutionise entrepreneurship in Nigeria and globally
2) what realistic measures can government put in place to encourage entrepreneurship
3) What can improve SMEs in Nigeria
4) What economic indexes do we use to measure prosperity
5) Do elites have a role to play in encouraging entrepreneurship and what are they?
6) What one can do to effectively start and run a business in third world nation

I know you are a busy man with work and programming but I just want to get one of the best write ups on entrepreneurship in Nairaland, too much information online but not much in substance

I would really appreciate your response

CaveAdullam:


1. The role of technology in business and economics has been in vogue for centuries.

From the invention of the sewing machine, camera, tractor, printing machine, etc.

Technology makes work easier and faster. It saves time, increases productivity, and economies of scale.

Humans are moving at a fast speed today due to the inventions of machines. Machines rule the world.

You can't compare the efficacy of a tractor and weed cutters who use a cutlass to clear a hectare of land.

Entrepreneurs who have access to machines will always be above those who lack machines.

2.
A. Free market economy. Allow people to do business they like without passing through useless bureaucrats.

B. Low tax rate or absence of tax for the first years of business.

C. National security. People should be able to move from one place to another without fear.

D. Property right. Business owners should never be paranoid about the demolition of their business empire by the government.

E. Access to loans, credits, facilities, etc.

F. Government-sponsored schemes to award grants or funds to kickstart good business ideas.

G. Encourage more privatization of industries. This will lead to competition and curb monopoly.

The government only needs to be a monitoring and regulatory body to ensure that private owners don't run their businesses to national decline.

H. Low import and export duties. Allow free trade between countries.

This increases the number of goods and circulation, which in turn makes thousands of the population employed.

It also makes the export country focus on goods and services they are best at, rather than scattering their efforts on all places. Comparative advantage.

3.

A. Credits, loans, grants.

B. Improve electricity supply.

C. Fixed bad roads.

D. Encourage agriculture by providing facilities and materials for it. Agriculture is the mother of all economy. It is the source of thousands of materials used in many industries.

If the people can eat and sell the surpluses they will then think of storage, processing, or export.

4. Human development index, gross domestic product, gross national product. And other economic terms.

To not tour the economic line with its inherent jargon, economic prosperity can be determined by:

A. Disposable income. How much free money can the average population spend on gadgets, vacations, food storage, etc after sorting their basic needs?

B. Assets. What items and how many of those items do the average population have that can be converted into money in the future?

C. Standard of living. Can the average population still provide their basic needs despite the rate of inflation?

What's the ratio of standard of living to cost of living?

D. Ease of doing business in the nation.

E. Safety of lives and properties.

F. Citizen's right. Can the average population exercise their fundamental right without threat or control?

5. Elites are the backbones of every nation. They have a strong role to play.

Good examples: Jim Ovia of Zenith Bank, and Tony Elumelu of United Bank of Africa. These billionaires have foundations and schools for training and selecting the best of the population to further upgrade the economy.

It is through scholarships, foundations, grants, access to mentorship, vocational schools, etc.

6. There's a reason you call that nation a third world nation. Meaning that that nation defy all the aforementioned points above.

That means the ease of doing business will be extremely difficult.

What you need to do: play dirty when it is pig's party. Hang your white linen at home.

Do your research.

Look for the loopholes and leverage it.

Business is not a morale game. However, the market knows how to curtail extremities.

Thanks.

CaveAdullam:


1. The role of technology in business and economics has been in vogue for centuries.

From the invention of the sewing machine, camera, tractor, printing machine, etc.

Technology makes work easier and faster. It saves time, increases productivity, and economies of scale.

Humans are moving at a fast speed today due to the inventions of machines. Machines rule the world.

You can't compare the efficacy of a tractor and weed cutters who use a cutlass to clear a hectare of land.

Entrepreneurs who have access to machines will always be above those who lack machines.

2.
A. Free market economy. Allow people to do business they like without passing through useless bureaucrats.

B. Low tax rate or absence of tax for the first years of business.

C. National security. People should be able to move from one place to another without fear.

D. Property right. Business owners should never be paranoid about the demolition of their business empire by the government.

E. Access to loans, credits, facilities, etc.

F. Government-sponsored schemes to award grants or funds to kickstart good business ideas.

G. Encourage more privatization of industries. This will lead to competition and curb monopoly.

The government only needs to be a monitoring and regulatory body to ensure that private owners don't run their businesses to national decline.

H. Low import and export duties. Allow free trade between countries.

This increases the number of goods and circulation, which in turn makes thousands of the population employed.

It also makes the export country focus on goods and services they are best at, rather than scattering their efforts on all places. Comparative advantage.

3.

A. Credits, loans, grants.

B. Improve electricity supply.

C. Fixed bad roads.

D. Encourage agriculture by providing facilities and materials for it. Agriculture is the mother of all economy. It is the source of thousands of materials used in many industries.

If the people can eat and sell the surpluses they will then think of storage, processing, or export.

4. Human development index, gross domestic product, gross national product. And other economic terms.

To not tour the economic line with its inherent jargon, economic prosperity can be determined by:

A. Disposable income. How much free money can the average population spend on gadgets, vacations, food storage, etc after sorting their basic needs?

B. Assets. What items and how many of those items do the average population have that can be converted into money in the future?

C. Standard of living. Can the average population still provide their basic needs despite the rate of inflation?

What's the ratio of standard of living to cost of living?

D. Ease of doing business in the nation.

E. Safety of lives and properties.

F. Citizen's right. Can the average population exercise their fundamental right without threat or control?

5. Elites are the backbones of every nation. They have a strong role to play.

Good examples: Jim Ovia of Zenith Bank, and Tony Elumelu of United Bank of Africa. These billionaires have foundations and schools for training and selecting the best of the population to further upgrade the economy.

It is through scholarships, foundations, grants, access to mentorship, vocational schools, etc.

6. There's a reason you call that nation a third world nation. Meaning that that nation defy all the aforementioned points above.

That means the ease of doing business will be extremely difficult.

What you need to do: play dirty when it is pig's party. Hang your white linen at home.

Do your research.

Look for the loopholes and leverage it.

Business is not a morale game. However, the market knows how to curtail extremities.

Thanks.