There’s this perfidy in Nigeria that people try to push about how being a tenant is seemingly a bad thing. Startup version is when they push for folks to start their own business like sth’s wrong w/ being an employee. Error in these thought tricks is apparent from 1st principles. https://twitter.com/Omojuwa/status/1263797865895415809

It leads to young people making very suboptimal decisions w/ the little networth they’re able to generate early in life. Guys listen, there’s FAR more to life than not paying landlord rent. Good test of IQ of this way: “what %age of businesses own office they operate from?”

It was when I attempted buying a house in cash that it dawned on me how very little N180m is. And how financially stupid it’d really be to take that line of action. God saved me from this perfidy of parents+peer pressure. The house money in networth can buy >40 of same house now.

Grok this young folks. That early cash you gather in life is an accelerant! It is SEED—not food. Building your own house to live in w/ it is eating the SEED God gave you to escape poverty. God in Prov24:27 advises us to gain our financial freedom FIRST b4 building our own house.

Observe, 2Cor 9:10 says God gives SEED to the SOWER—not the eater—and ensures he has food to eat + guaranty increasing store of SEED to SOW, which’ll eventually lead to an enlarged harvest, which then starts that cycle of wealth creation. Wisdom is the principal thing. Get it!!!

Can you imagine? Some people have eaten their own destinies, digested it & shat it out, ALL by themselves, w/out any help from their village people, all in the race to not be paying rent in Lagos. Modern day Esaus, w/out any grounding in the concept of delayed gratification.