I describe poverty as the devil (#159).
Many rich people don’t want poor people to be rich like them.
Most of them never want to see the poor man be successful like that.
Most rich men always want to be on top of the situation and also continue to use the poor as their salve.
All of that is happening out of selfishness.
In my country, Sierra Leone politicians have sold our country to foreign businessmen men.
Who treats our brothers badly with just a small salary just to feed their families and themselves.
They overworked them, abused them, and left them with no choice but to accept everything business people do to them.
With no option because our government fails to provide jobs and security for every citizen.
I sometimes buy from this foreign business, especially the Indian and the Lebanese stores.
I see how they treat our brothers that just depend on that job.
Even these construction companies own buy foreign owners, they molest, underpay.
Even laying them off without no benefit, and they said it was part of their agreement.
There is a saying (beggars have no choice), but for God's sake how can someone work for you for over five (5) years to end his/ her contract with no benefit?
Let me tell you a short history of how poverty destroys someone's talent.
When no one stands to support him that ends his talent and time goes in vain.
When I was a boy I used to hear about one man who used metal to build small jets.
It was pleased around Kissy and Wellington, Bai Buria road highway.
According to what I had from people, he was born talented, and at the age of ten (10), he started making toy cars using tin cups.
His background was not encouraging financially to support him, to achieve his goal.
Which he has a passion for and always wanted that dream to come to pass.
At age fifteen (15) he continued to build toy cars with copper wires with a small auto motto.
That makes them move without using physical force on it.
Moreover, to cut a story short, this man builds a jet and asks the government to support him financially to make it move.
But unfortunately, the government did not respond to him, he was disappointed and got frustrated.
Since he did not get any response, he feels betrayed, which leads him to psychological health issues after that makes him run mad.
But before he was working for a foreign company, he went there to raise money to complete his jet project.
But sadly he was underpaid and layoff contract with no benefit after working with them for over five years.
All of that led him to overstress, pressure, and live an unhealthy life and people started to distance themselves from him.
Sierra Leone should've been a proud country having someone talented like him.
But selfishness and greed have destroyed so many talents in our country today.
If we learn one thing which is very important for one another that will reduce the poverty rate in Sierra Leone (let live by lifting others).