As someone that just got into the Hive ecosystem recently, I have been thinking of how to begin my Hive journey and start posting on my blog, maybe there's always this voice that keeps telling us to wait a little more 😅 I decided I couldn't wait anymore, I have to participate in this week's prompt on Hive Naija because it's something I have great interest in and something I always want to discuss with people especially when I have opportunity to give seminars or lead group discussions.
I have come to realize that so many times individual efforts are not adequately rewarded . especially if one comes from a poor background or a country where economic situations are not so favourable for it's citizens. Nigeria for example, and even in most African countries and some other regions of the world, people live in adject poverty not because they are not hardworking, but because they have not gotten opportunity to share in the vast amount of knowledge available to other people in more developed cities of the world.
How lack of equal opportunities lead to poor standard of living and underdevelopment.
I have once come across a popular saying which quotes :
Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared” (George S. Clason).
but then I always ask myself how can one prepare if he/ she doesn't have enough resources to prepare with, because preparation in any endeavour in life requires the use of resources.
Individuals without good opportunities can not compete adequately with their counterparts, especially in a world like ours where people believe that resources are limited and end up competing for resources. only a few are able to rise to the level of competing adequately because they were helped by family and friends or they get the so called luck. but you can reason it with me, how many people get lucky at the end of the day.
Alot of hardworking individuals never get to the peak of their career and their life pursuits. some end up believing they can never amount to anything good in Life simply because they don't have the so called "helper" and not so funny many never will.
how I could salvage this situation if I have the opportunity and the ability
Dignity in labour
we all know that Africa is a continent with so many blesed countries and gifted individuals in it, but we can hardly name our place among other countries of the world. we complain alot about leadership being the problem in Africa. and truely bad leaders have contributed alot to our problems.
worst being that alot of them amass the wealth meant for the general public to their private pockets and even stock it up for their generations yet unborn.
while so many people work hard from morning to night and nothing to show for it, a few other just grow into wealth that was never a product of individual efforts, savings from payable employment, or accountable salesmanship.
If only we can uphold and implement the principle of dignity and reward equivalent to individual labour for all categories of people irrespective of origin and background of any individual so far he or she merit's it alot of things will really improve and sufferings will reduce drastically in our countries.
Thank God for crypto currencies, decentralized exchanges and platforms like Hive where individuals get to be rewarded adequately for their efforts, time and other resources they use in making inputs in their various communities.
So in summary, the world is advancing rapidly and things are changing. If there's one thing I can change, it'll be to make people have equal opportunity notwithstanding their origin or background. Also everyone deserve adequate reward for labour irrespective of what origin or background they come from.
Thank you for reading through ❤️
I'm Stevewealth 😁 I hope to write more enriching posts here as often as possible.
