In Nigeria, when you hear some policies that the government bring or make, you just feel like they themselves are against the country from prospering and they are against the youth from making it or living well in the country. But despite the hardship and poor government, the Nigerian youths still find way to smile and move on because they don’t depend on the government but their own hustle and ability to survive.
Some see these spirit as determination, good mindset and focused but the truth is we are suffering and smiling and the government is just taking advantage of us because they feel no matter how we complain and protest nothing changes and they can do whatever they like without questions. So that’s why you see or hear most Nigerians go about their daily life and still try to keep up with the inflation, hardship and whatever the country throw at them.
80% of working class Nigerians are also hustlers too because they know that no matter what they earn, it won’t be enough to survive the country and that’s why you see some Nigerians, working staff by day and an entrepreneur in the evening or at night and sometimes they work side jobs online too. We’ve seen cases where some youths create and design a lot of things from scratch or out of nothing, the lucky ones gets a chance to explore it outside the country due to helpers, while the unlucky ones just gets abandoned and their talents go to waste likewise graduates too in the country due to no jobs.
And that’s why you see most Nigerians say “school is a big scam” and rather than going to school its best they hustle or even after finishing school, the ones that wants to hustle the legal find an entrepreneur jobs to do or learn a skill while some go the illegal way and that is why you see most Nigerians come out prosperous, flashy and rich, not because of what the government provided but due to their means of hustle.
And now that cryptocurrency is now the main trend and way of hustle now, every youth is hopping into it, and this has also reduce the rate of crime and illegal means of making money because cryptocurrency has made them more focused in the hustle game and the fact that it isn’t controlled by the government makes it more interesting and fun.
So in Nigeria now, the most common means for hustling now is cryptocurrency that it became worrisome for the government that they even try to ban it or did, to also punish us or stop us from succeeding or find a way to survive their hardship because I don’t see any other reason for that. So no matter the hardship, we will always find a way to survive