When some of you capitalists without capital are done crying, you will receive sense.
Capitalism thrives on engineered scarcity.
First you are forced to move to the big cities by completing rendering your original location economically useless.
They need all of you in the big cities for the purpose of driving food and housing costs to the highest levels possible.
These costs will make you desperate for a job to survive.
Once more and more desperate people flood the labour market, it already tells you the unemployment rate.
Capital owners capitalize on the high unemployment rate to attract highly skilled for low wages, and to keep existing workers under slave contracts (with the threat of “before you resign check the unemployment rate”).
Once again, whenever I see the Nigerian working class defending capitalism, I pity their fourth generation because those innocent children have no idea what their ancestors are cooking for them.
Everyone is forced to be in Lagos. And I mean “deliberately” forced to be in Lagos to serve capitalism.
You probably don’t know this because you don’t understand how the capitalist economy of Nigeria is set up to work.
When you extract the value of the whole country and concentrate it in one location, it serves the capitalists, as people will be forced by lack of activities to leave their original location (where they live rent free and grow their own food) to Lagos where they will have no choice than slave for capitalism just to afford to pay for the same rent and food they had for free. Capitalism needs people who are desperate to eat and pay rent to survive.
It was not by accident that every headquarters and every key infrastructure and public service was concentrated in Lagos. It was deliberate. It’s also not by accident that insecurity is trafficked everywhere else before it get to Lagos. It is deliberate.
It’s very important you educate yourself on how systems work, to avoid embarrassing yourself by asking people if they are forced to be in Lagos. Of course, they are forced to be in Lagos.