I was still asleep when the Minister gave his Labour Day speech at Nyayo Stadium today. But when I caught a snippet of the happenings during the 4 pm headlines, I thought to myself, what shit are Kenyans really wallowing in? The huge crowd, waiting patiently, just to hear that minimum wage has been raised. And that there are some people who will now have the privilege of going to work every morning waiting for a pay slip of between 3,000 and 6,000 shillings. Kenya shillings. To pay rent, feed families, pay school fees (you all know it’s not free), clothing, bribe public officials here and there… And the person reading out this very encouraging bit of news, let’s not ask how much he took home last Month. How much do they earn anyway? More than 250 times more than Kenya’s lowest paid worker? Great. I earn much more myself. I hope my PAYE will one day actually contribute to someone else earning more. Anyway, I won’t go out to buy the very frivolous piece of equipment I had planned to. It costs more than what someone earns in a whole month and am feeling kinda guilty about that. Maybe tomorrow when I forget… like the middle class is wont to.