A lot of people blame the lack of money for some of the problems they have, while sentimental illusion makes us focus on this, it's important to understand that when we apply logical reasoning to this, we'd see that money is not the problem, people are.
In some African societies, money is adored over every value. This is one tool that people compromise everything they hold dear for. This is why people will choose quick money over organic wealth.
This is mostly of a lazy mindset. Over here, people adore time, they want to do everything so timely forgetting that a person can be in their old age and achieve financial success too.
To be honest, being young is delicate
This is when you can get it right, or get it totally wrong
Young people here are more pressured; They're pressured into getting married earlier so that their parents can enjoy the wealth they never made in their lifetime.
They're pressured into becoming rich quickly, because of family responsibilities. This is why due process is never appreciated.
It's hard to boast about potential. African parents do not believe in building potential, it's either you make it or not, and this creates a dopamine of haste. Generational wealth in Africa is mostly difficult.
Made Or Born To Excel?
This is where a parent who never invested anything in their children, will expect them to become millionaires overnight, achieving the things they couldn't.
In reality, while anyone can go from zero to hero, we need to understand that when people are given the proper vestment or upliftment, their chances in life are automatically decreased.
When it comes to building generational wealth, the mindset of some African countries is still stunted. There are parents who give birth without making an effort to ensure that their kids have the opportunity to make it.
A Headstart Is Not Privilege
They don't understand that building a child with the right ingredients, guarantees not just their survival but allows them to thrive.
Young people in some African countries are pressured by cultural expectations and if they cannot financially meet up, they're always branded as failures, even if they were not given the tool, premise, or the right environment to help them grow.
This is why a lot of young people prioritize quick money, this is a ripple effect of the kind of socioeconomic environment in which they were born in.
I know people who never fulfilled their potential and this isn't because they were lazy, they wanted to first satisfy expectations that were placed on them, so much they lost themselves.
The older generations are often too expectant
It's difficult for them to acknowledge that they couldn't meet up to their own expectations, so what they mostly do is expect the younger generation to automatically do better even without giving them the right tools.
In this digitized age, it takes time to build anything substantial, but it's difficult to show efforts when the time you've put in cannot show or prove the potentiality of success.
In the Western world, growth and development are prioritized more than the intended success that's aimed to be achieved
In some African societies, people focus on the potentiality of the results, before they even move a muscle. Expectations kill when adequate preparations are not put in place, especially in a world where people prepare and the possibility of failure is still real.
The pressure of having to give back is that hardworking people are always stagnant.
It's like having one working borehole in a village, and Instead of someone being intuitive to establish another working borehole, the aim will be to drain the only working borehole and blame it for not having enough water to supply to others
The Sad Reality
A lot of African societies are like this, they kill their prospect before it even blossoms, harvest it before it reaches maturity, and blame it for not being enough to nurture them.
A lot of people will remain poor simply because of coming from the wrong economic background and not because they're not innovative or creative.
There's a fabric to how financial success can be built or sustained. This is why wealthy people want their children to always continue from where they stop.
Poverty can also be generational in this regard, except the present generation changes the narrative. A lot of people focus on the easiest way to make money, while ignoring the easiest ways to remain poor.
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