Category: Economy

Hospitality and Hospital Industries: Pillars of Philippine Economic Growth

May 31, 2022 zaxx 10 Comments

Entertaining tourists and guests, and making them feel welcome and at-home make up a crucial pillar of the Philippine economy. Our national-pastime-turned-industry of singing, dancing, cracking jokes, and playing basketball provides our valued international and local visitors a good time to sit back and relax over San Miguel light and chicharon bulaklak pulutan while the…

Culture, Development, Economy, Society

Modern Culture vs. Traditional culture: Why I choose the former

May 18, 2022May 19, 2022 ChinoF 16 Comments

In a previous article, I mentioned a 1990s or early 2000s cable TV advertisement which showed people of different cultures later morphing into people in black modern suits. The narrator was saying that diversity and culture are in danger because of modernization by globalization. I’m still looking for this ad, but I also still disagree…

Culture, Economy

How should Philippine food security be addressed?

May 2, 2022May 2, 2022 The Unpopular Opinion 55 Comments

“An army marches on its stomach.” is one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most popular quotes. Even with his prowess as a highly capable commander and strategist, the French emperor himself had recognized that a country’s military power projection greatly relies on its capacity to feed its armed forces. With France as the most significant great power…

Business, Development, Economy

The Ukrainian crisis: why Filipinos must be pragmatic

March 15, 2022 The Unpopular Opinion 58 Comments

The military conflict involving Kiev and Moscow has been making the headlines of various news outlets all over the world. This Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict officially started when current Russian president Vladimir Putin recognized two people’s republics located in Eastern Ukraine, which are Luhansk and Donetsk. Collectively, they are grouped together as the Donbas region, where…

Economy, History, Politics, Society

Is the Philippine national debt even an issue?

February 17, 2022February 17, 2022 The Unpopular Opinion 2 Comments

The campaign period of the 2022 Philippine general elections has officially started. Various executive and legislative positions from national to local posts are up for grabs, where the main candidates have their eyes locked on Malacañang. Political parties and politicians propose various policies that they wish to pursue, provided that they win the elections. Most,…

Development, Economy, Government, Money Talks

People who work 18 hours a day are stupid

February 12, 2022February 12, 2022 benign0 15 Comments

Those who haven’t heard of the phrase “work smarter, not harder” are the sorts of people who habitually see heroism in working stupid hours. The underlying concepts applied when wrapping your head around why working 18 hours a day is stupid lies in the difference between the truly prosperous and the merely surviving. It is…

Business, Economy, Lifestyle, Money Talks

The “wokes”: providing misleading answers to the wrong questions

February 1, 2022 The Unpopular Opinion 2 Comments

History points out how human civilizations and societies have evolved. From the simple hunter-gatherer groups of peoples to the extremely complicated and interconnected relationships built through globalization, humans have definitely found ways to persevere and achieve greater human development that would even leave our ancestors astonished. However, beyond these marvelous achievements of the human race,…

Civics, Economy, Politics, Society

Leni Robredo’s IMPOSSIBLE promise to regain public trust in government: Filipinos trust her LESS than President Duterte!

December 13, 2021 benign0 16 Comments

“Ibalik ang tiwala sa gobyerno,” (“Regain public trust in the government”) says Leni Robredo in her most recent campaign video where she lays out her plan to provide “jobs for all”. One wonders though. If Robredo’s pitch is to regain public trust in the Philippine Government, the question is, is she the right person to…

Economy, Politics

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