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Dtruthspeaker:
A person earning N60k per month is not poor, compared to the normal poor we know who praise God for earning up to N20k in one month.

koladata:
Poor is better defined by how much you can save, not just how much you earn. You might be surprised to find that someone earning 20k can save consistently, while someone earning 60k might struggle to save anything. Regardless of income, if you can't save, financial instability and poverty remains, even if you're earning 1 million.

Dtruthspeaker:
A person earning N60k per month is not poor, compared to the normal poor we know who praise God for earning up to N20k in one month.

Dtruthspeaker:
I agree.

A student earning N20k is not poor but a man who has to take care of himself with no help earning N20K, is poorer than poor. There is no way he can save. It is impossible.

Nnamdipapa:
Two can manage to combine expenses and pull themselves out of poverty compared to one person struggling alone but no child should be involved. I have white couples married for 5 years and on family planning and just bought the second home. Jayz has one kid, Cena is even refusing to have any child.

Poor people are poor because they make poor decisions.

purples25:
Just live your life because no matter what you do, people will complain.

koladata:
My brother takes time to research how people with low incomes live. That 20k is a two-month feeding allowance for some families and they don't even look it. That bottle of coke you drink is some family's daily food budget and they are also living fine some times better than us. It’s hard to imagine, but I know a family whose total income doesn’t even reach 50k, both are teachers, and they are a family of three. Despite this, they own a piece of landed property in Ikorodu. I’m not saying this to sound good; I genuinely know this family.

I was at a shop buying foodstuff when someone came to buy 100-naira red oil. I asked the woman what the person planned to use it for. She said they would pour it over their rice with no stew, just oil and salt. I gave the woman some money to give him if he came around again and asked her to get his phone number for me.

I carefully tried to research this man's life. It turns out that he and his wife wake up as early as 4:30 a.m. and trek to work every day—a distance of about 20 km from where they live o. The surprising part is that their struggles don’t show much in their lifestyle. They seem like regular people you’d see daily, and they even dress better than some people. But shockingly, they also own landed property. He said told me the only problem that is not helping him to save much is his rent , but once they finish their property , that one will be solved.

I didn’t bother asking about their exact salary, but I’m 100% sure it’s not up to 50k.

so my brother its not about how much you earn, its about how much you can save

Nnamdipapa:
Why would a person earn 60k per month? Is there anyone earning N60k per month? How would they survive alone?

Dtruthspeaker:
https://www.nairaland.com/8316760/man-commits-suicide-over-pressure

We have seen and heard too many times how a poor man struggling and managing his life is often pressured and forced into marrying.

And we have seen that some families go as far as even forcing a girl to marry him.

If it is not wickedness and an attempt to throw him into more torment, so why?

What is the rationale for this wickedness?

And it is not that these families will always be there for them O.

And why do the girls/women they bring to him not have sense to run away from him?

koladata:
My brother takes time to research how people with low incomes live. That 20k is a two-month feeding allowance for some families and they don't even look it. That bottle of coke you drink is some family's daily food budget and they are also living fine some times better than us. It’s hard to imagine, but I know a family whose total income doesn’t even reach 50k, both are teachers, and they are a family of three. Despite this, they own a piece of landed property in Ikorodu. I’m not saying this to sound good; I genuinely know this family.

I was at a shop buying foodstuff when someone came to buy 100-naira red oil. I asked the woman what the person planned to use it for. She said they would pour it over their rice with no stew, just oil and salt. I gave the woman some money to give him if he came around again and asked her to get his phone number for me.

I carefully tried to research this man's life. It turns out that he and his wife wake up as early as 4:30 a.m. and trek to work every day—a distance of about 20 km from where they live o. The surprising part is that their struggles don’t show much in their lifestyle. They seem like regular people you’d see daily, and they even dress better than some people. But shockingly, they also own landed property. He said told me the only problem that is not helping him to save much is his rent , but once they finish their property , that one will be solved.

I didn’t bother asking about their exact salary, but I’m 100% sure it’s not up to 50k.

so my brother its not about how much you earn, its about how much you can save

Dtruthspeaker:
https://www.nairaland.com/8316760/man-commits-suicide-over-pressure

We have seen and heard too many times how a poor man struggling and managing his life is often pressured and forced into marrying.

And we have seen that some families go as far as even forcing a girl to marry him.

If it is not wickedness and an attempt to throw him into more torment, so why?

What is the rationale for this wickedness?

And it is not that these families will always be there for them O.

And why do the girls/women they bring to him not have sense to run away from him?

purples25:
Just live your life because no matter what you do, people will complain.

And why do the girls/women they bring to him not have sense to run away from him?

Dtruthspeaker:
https://www.nairaland.com/8316760/man-commits-suicide-over-pressure

We have seen and heard too many times how a poor man struggling and managing his life is often pressured and forced into marrying.

And we have seen that some families go as far as even forcing a girl to marry him.

If it is not wickedness and an attempt to throw him into more torment, so why?

What is the rationale for this wickedness?

And it is not that these families will always be there for them O.

And why do the girls/women they bring to him not have sense to run away from him?

Dshocker:
U go understand when you reach 40yrs without a wife 😂

Hellisreal70:
Are you poor and being forced to marry?

koladata:
Poor is better defined by how much you can save, not just how much you earn. You might be surprised to find that someone earning 20k can save consistently, while someone earning 60k might struggle to save anything. Regardless of income, if you can't save, financial instability and poverty remains, even if you're earning 1 million.

Nnamdipapa:
Poor people can marry but should not produce offspring in poverty. It i morally wrong to bring an innocent child into the world to suffer. Irony is tha na poor men get the biggest gbola and want to lash everytime.

Nnamdipapa:
Two can manage to combine expenses and pull themselves out of poverty compared to one person struggling alone but no child should be involved. I have white couples married for 5 years and on family planning and just bought the second home. Jayz has one kid, Cena is even refusing to have any child.

Poor people are poor because they make poor decisions.

Dtruthspeaker:
https://www.nairaland.com/8316760/man-commits-suicide-over-pressure

We have seen and heard too many times how a poor man struggling and managing his life is often pressured and forced into marrying.

And we have seen that some families go as far as even forcing a girl to marry him.

If it is not wickedness and an attempt to throw him into more torment, so why?

What is the rationale for this wickedness?

And it is not that these families will always be there for them O.

And why do the girls/women they bring to him not have sense to run away from him?

delishpot:
As the mumu man who is supposed to be head of family and man in society didn't have sense to run when they force him to marry, why do you think the women who are mostly in worse situation than him should d be the ones to run?

DisLifeSha:
31 right now, no money, nobody can force me..

Remijuice:
Misery loves company
When Africans are pushing you into anything, don't do it. It is never for your own good.

Anything that would be benefiting to you, they will have you beg for it or you go figure it out with little or no support.

Dtruthspeaker:
Aah! Clearly you have never been poor else you would have known that N100 oil is only one part of his daily expenditure. You forgot the cost of his rice and salt and if he buys water, that one too.

You forgot the cost of kerosene, firewood, matches etc

You don't know that it is absolutely impossible to eat rice and oil everyday, so they must buy garri, fish, meat, groundnut, pure water because one day he shall be on the road and he shall be thirsty. He must enter bus or Okada because he cannot walk etc.

You obviously have never been unsupported by your parents and family so you don't know what it means to be poor and your vicarious understanding of them is still short of the Truth and real eyeity.

As you see Labour and the world cried out that N60K minimum wage is grossly insufficient. That tells you how impossible your story is

koladata:
My brother takes time to research how people with low incomes live. That 20k is a two-month feeding allowance for some families and they don't even look it. That bottle of coke you drink is some family's daily food budget and they are also living fine some times better than us. It’s hard to imagine, but I know a family whose total income doesn’t even reach 50k, both are teachers, and they are a family of three. Despite this, they own a piece of landed property in Ikorodu. I’m not saying this to sound good; I genuinely know this family.

I was at a shop buying foodstuff when someone came to buy 100-naira red oil. I asked the woman what the person planned to use it for. She said they would pour it over their rice with no stew, just oil and salt. I gave the woman some money to give him if he came around again and asked her to get his phone number for me.

I carefully tried to research this man's life. It turns out that he and his wife wake up as early as 4:30 a.m. and trek to work every day—a distance of about 20 km from where they live o. The surprising part is that their struggles don’t show much in their lifestyle. They seem like regular people you’d see daily, and they even dress better than some people. But shockingly, they also own landed property. He said told me the only problem that is not helping him to save much is his rent , but once they finish their property , that one will be solved.

I didn’t bother asking about their exact salary, but I’m 100% sure it’s not up to 50k.

so my brother its not about how much you earn, its about how much you can save

Martinez39s:
Surprisingly and unfortunately, this is not common sense amongst many. Pragmatic procreation is just not a thing with many people.