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Money & Value; Why Poverty Is A Tool & Not Just A Condition by josediccus

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Money & Value; Why Poverty Is A Tool & Not Just A Condition



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In the Nigerian public and private sector a lot of people are bargaining to have the minimum wages increased, while in the private sectors many are also fighting to have their salaries increased and the most ironic thing is that no matter how the minimum wage is being increased it would always feel like collecting the same amount of money every point in time despite the constant increase in salaries of private and public workers. 

This is because money isn't the issue, the financial policies are actually the issue, inflation is another thing and of course the trend of demand and supply that will always be there. It's quite easy to manipulate fiat currency and the value it holds and how it appreciates or depreciates. 


Government on their own needs to subsidize the prices of essential services rather than increasing the minimum wage. Many wholesaler and retailers in the market are always following the trend, whenever there's an increment in maybe salaries or consumers begin to show signs of good living, the next thing they actually do is to increase the prices of goods and services. 


So as wages or salaries increases, there's manipulation of prices which means that the increment on wages and salaries will actually have no effect, it is the reason why a lot of people are earning reasonably well, but then they're static. 


They cannot save, buy properties, invest in other ventures or own savings for futuristic purpose. To the government and the heads of private organizations, they feel they're increasing the salaries of people, meanwhile this isn't so. One of the reasons why people slip into poverty is not because they don't have jobs, one of the reason is that earning really well but spending too much on humanistic basic survival.


 A lot of the Nigerian population are working to feed and not really working to save or plan for their future, this is evident on why people continually seek for increment as prices of goods and services take a huge leap. Feeding, clothing and shelter is the most expensive thing in Nigeria and anyone who can comfortably do these while still growing exponentially when it comes to their financial would actually have multiple streams of income to beat the inflation and not dependent on paying job to survive. 

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In the country, we have people who are working and the people who are earning. The people who are mostly earning are profiting from the hard work of those who are actually working, while those who are actually working are not incentivized enough for their efforts.


 So, this is why the government isn't so keen on having its citizens allegedly earning money unorthodoxly *(i.e, crypto)* there are people who are using Poverty to control the masses, they take advantage of the unemployment to actually pay people less for their invaluable efforts. If a lot of people in Nigeria were financially capable they'll recognise when they're being ripped or when they're being taken advantage and be forced to make a change. 


This means that poverty or lack can have positive or negative value, as it only depends on who is going through it or who is benefiting from it. In many other countries too, increment of salaries have no effect whatsoever, especially when there's no economic system put in check to subsidize and control price actions in the market.

Many people are profiting off the already inflated market to cause more artificial cost-push inflation due to the fact that there are no systems in check that should regulate the system and actions from the manufacturer to the end-consumer. Capitalism on its own is prone to manipulation, especially when manufacturers can inflate prices without any reasons rather than profiteering alone. 


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@bhattg ·
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Great post sir as always, learning new things daily from your blogs.
it seems true, my company is small but there is a regular increment in salary after every 6 months but it looks the same to me.
I have not that much saving I have a plan I will keep a recorded of my all the money from the next may be that will help

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@josediccus ·
> it seems true, my company is small but there is a regular increment in salary after every 6 months but it looks the same to me.

Well it might be that your spending has increased or maybe you the effect of Inflation is taking it's toll, or it might even be that you're not managing as you should. These things definitely happens.
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@bhattg ·
yes that may be case indeed i will try to keep my records of all the things and save as much I can and sure invest in #hive too 😁
Thanks for the reply sir.
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@igwee ·
Great writeup,i believe that the worst kind of poverty is really the poverty of the mind



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@josediccus ·
Thanks for the comment

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@igwee ·
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@jfang003 ·
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I agree that the problem is with the government. Increasing the minimum wage will not really help because it won't really stop the businesses from increasing costs. The problem I see is that the government has no real incentive to change it.

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@josediccus ·
This is of course capitalism at it's highest. Truth is, I have seen first hand what it means to have your money taken away by constant increasing cost in the market. The only way to do this is to actually subsidize and also price control too. 

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