Perez Tigidam: Can we just stop poor people from having sex, please?

by Perez Tigidam

The awkward thing about the poor man is that he lacks the means to the luxuries and pleasantries of life so his only entertainment is sex. He spills semen indiscreetly and replicates the earth innumerably.

No, the poor man’s strength cannot be attributed to the many children he has. As a matter of fact, we should criminalize having more than two children for people who live below $1 a day. Saying that the poor man’s strength is his large family is like saying Nigeria is great because of its population alone; it’s one business phrase that I have been struggling to agree with, seeing what Nigeria has always been irrespective of its many children. Once you are poor, there is something wrong somewhere with your ability to think and take decisions that make you live a better life.

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma rightly said and I agree that

“The worst people to serve are the Poor people. Give them free, they think it’s a trap. Tell them it’s a small investment, they’ll say can’t earn much. Tell them to come in big, they’ll say no money. Tell them try new things, they’ll say no experience. Tell them it’s traditional business, they’ll say hard to do. Tell them it’s a new business model, they’ll say it’s MLM. Tell them to run a shop, they’ll say no freedom. Tell them run new business, they’ll say no expertise”

For the poor man, having many children like rabbits is his only defense against the rainy day. A bit of a complexity I’m yet to wrap my head around. First he lacks access to good healthcare so he thinks to himself “If some die, I will still have a few left”. He lacks the economic wherewithal to feed and train them so at age 3, they are let loose into the streets and highways to hawk and live the life of an adult while he stays at home to drink and continue having more sex. The children, from very early stages of life continue from where the poor man’s life was put on pause, he wants his children to continue his life while he continues idly in his orgasm charade.

Perhaps, dissuading the poor from having many children should be another means of fighting child labour, it is dehumanizing to see children suffer.

There is no dignity in poverty.


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Perez Tigidam is a brand strategy consultant and publisher. This article was first written here

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