Tag: productivity

Why are Chinese workers WORTH MORE than Filipino workers in the job market?

March 3, 2019 benign0 12 Comments

For all the noise about the growing number of Chinese workers flooding the Philippines, very few “activists” have raised this most important question of all. Why do Chinese workers attract bigger wages than Filipino workers? Furthermore, it seems employers of Chinese workers in the Philippines are willing to take significant effort and incur the cost…

Development, Economy, Money Talks

The REAL Philippine State of the Nation demystified

July 15, 2018July 15, 2018 benign0 9 Comments

Again, like the federalism “issue”, political “analysts” and their dogs have recently been issuing their two cents on the whats and what nots of the state of the Philippine Nation. This is of course the gathering din of two-bit chatter in the lead up to the State of the Nation Address (SONA) to be delivered…

Culture, Development, Society

Why it is ABSOLUTELY wrong for Filipino workers to expect tips

May 2, 2017 benign0 12 Comments

Tipping is a sad relic of American culture that Filipinos have embraced. Indeed, Filipino workers have gone further and perverted the concept by seeing tips as an entitlement rather than a mere pleasant surprise bonus from happy customers. Most disturbing of all is how “activists” encouraged people to tip workers on, of all occasions, labour…

Development, Economy, Society

Trump and Duterte: The rise of hugely-popular demagogues in America and its Philippine colony

December 10, 2015December 10, 2015 benign0 25 Comments

It is hardly surprising that demagogues have come to dominate national Americana politics on both sides of the globe. Funny enough, two such popular demagogues happen to be making waves on the East and West both in bastions of American values — in the United States itself where anti-immigrant Republican candidate Donald Trump is ruling…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Environment, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

Filipinos need to get off the loser path and onto the road to real progress

November 10, 2015November 10, 2015 benign0 22 Comments

How did the Philippines get to where it is now? It is a wretched society, unable to defend itself from foreign and natural threats, paralysed by its own enormous population, and staring at a future hobbled by a lack of the infrastructure to get it down the right road. Yet the country, over much of…

Development, Economy, Society

Of debates on ‘kababawan’, ‘kayo na matalino’, and all-around Pinoy apathy

October 3, 2015 rsurtida 19 Comments

There’s a perverse type of pleasure people with a lot of time in their hands derive with simply prowling the endless frontiers of cyberspace in search of “worthy” causes as a platform to give people a piece of their valuable opinions on things. Or for some, just grabbing the popcorn and soda to simply sit…

Civics, Culture, Development, Education, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Superficiality vs. Substance: From The Eyes Of Singaporeans

September 12, 2015 Grimwald 17 Comments

Let me tell you a conversation I once had with my Singaporean friends. After all, we all like to believe that the Philippines can one day become as prosperous as Singapore. Both Ilda and Benign0 have already said their pieces about Singapore, so this is mine, or rather, what my Singaporean friends have to say….

Culture, Development, Government, Media, Politics, Society

How Filipinos See And Understand Hard Work

August 23, 2015 Grimwald 13 Comments

This article is a tribute more or less to one of Vladimir Santos’ latest articles and is just another look at another overused alleged value called “hard work” the same way I deconstructed the Pinoy concept of “humility“… So let’s start with a story, shall we? Once upon a time there was a farmer with…

Culture, Lifestyle, Society