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post Aug 27 2018, 06:22 PM, updated 6y ago

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Why are the Philippines still a very poor country despite being under Duterte, and the poorest in Southeast Asia?

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The Philippines is poor because of uncontrolled population growth.

A country’s wealth is the quantity and quality of goods and services that it can produce. Before a citizen can produce something of value, he has to be educated and be trained to work hard to increase the quantity and quality of his work. A baby human takes 18 years before it is usually legally allowed to produce goods and services (get a job). In those 18 years, that human is a liability that takes in more resources than it gives, instead of being an asset that gives more than it takes.


A well-educated, employed adult human can pay back the expenses of raising himself, as well as have excess revenue to pay for the human that will replace it (i.e. its child). A highly-educated, hardworking human will earn much more revenue from age 18 to 65 (47 years), allowing him to produce and raise more replacements that have the same qualities as himself (i.e. have many good children). After many generations, this naturally leads to advanced societies such as the UK, Japan, and Germany.

However, the problem usually begins when:

Education is neglected or reversed. In this case, the quantity and quality of work by the citizens decline, causing a subsequent decline in revenue. This is seen best in comparing North Korea vs South Korea and in most Communist countries.
The population grows too fast. Having too many children will drain resources quickly especially if it is a continuous phenomenon. The country’s education services will not be able to train each child, leaving the ‘excess’ population uneducated, doomed to lower class work causing an oversupply which naturally force the excess population overseas, as observed by Adam Smith:
Wages cannot be very high in a country that has long been stationary. If the people’s revenue continued to be the same for several centuries, the supply of workers could easily surpass the demand for workers the following year. There would be no competition among employers for labour. The workers would increase in number and eventually find a shortage of employment. They would compete with each other to get employed and would lower wages to the lowest possible rate. The poverty of the lower ranks of people in China is worse than any European nation. In Canton, many thousand families live in little fishing boats. They are eager to fish up the nastiest garbage from any European ship, eating any dead animal as wholesome food. (Wealth of Nations, Book 1)


A common trait of rich countries is a low population growth rate. They usually just hire educated workers from overseas for mid level jobs so that their society does not have to be burdened with the 18-year liability and instead just get useful assets that already produce good value. Why build your own machine when you can just buy it?

Ideally, the money sent back by one overseas worker should be able to fund the education of one or two children back home. However, Filipino families usually have four or more children, so it is still not enough.

Thailand saw this problem in the ‘70s so it successfully ran programs that limited population growth. Notice how the Philippines and Thailand had similar populations in the 70s but started to split in the 80s.


Notice also that Thailand’s GDP also broke away from the Philippines in the 80’s


We all know that the Catholic Church is the organization that is promoting the overpopulation. Businessmen adapt to this policy by funding politicians that are popular, but have no morals, manifesting as systemic corruption.


The Philippine’s national hero Jose Rizal was very much against the Church and it is sad that has the Church has succeeded in keeping the country poor and ignorant just as it had done during Rizal’s time. The Church still has its hands very much on Philippine politics and the recent halting of the Reproductive Health bill is a good example.
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post Aug 27 2018, 06:26 PM

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post Aug 27 2018, 06:26 PM

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duterte help reduce the number what
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post Aug 27 2018, 06:28 PM

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QUOTE(jrrsim @ Aug 27 2018, 06:22 PM)
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Why are the Philippines still a very poor country despite being under Duterte?
as if Du30 is the guy that can saves pinoyland. lol.
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post Aug 27 2018, 06:30 PM

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the catholic clergy is very powerful in the filipinas
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post Aug 27 2018, 06:31 PM

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Pinoy and Kelantanese got same characteristics.

They breed a lot, kuat seks. And awekz banyak chun.

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post Aug 27 2018, 06:36 PM

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when pinoymoii come bolehland compete against thaimoi and vietmoi? brows.gif
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post Aug 27 2018, 06:37 PM

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post Aug 27 2018, 06:41 PM

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Huh, I was just coincidentally watching a video that is also relevant to this topic.



That country has one of the highest incidents of teenage pregnancy in the world. When they have kids that young, they are never able to complete their education and it just perpetuates the poverty cycle as they won't be able to afford to raise their kids properly either.

Not to mention the kid being interviewed, the boyfriend is 22 years old while she's only 13 (yikes) and he huffs paint to get high. doh.gif
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History had proven again and again that politics & religion shouldn't mix together. Till now we still can see the effects of it.
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post Aug 27 2018, 07:03 PM

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QUOTE(zeus2005 @ Aug 27 2018, 06:36 PM)
They also believe that anak is rezeki.  Watched a documentary before.  In fact most of them does not even think or know bout family planning
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I spoke to some Malaysians and they think the same way. Every anak is rezeki. The more the better.

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post Aug 27 2018, 07:09 PM

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QUOTE(Hobbez @ Aug 27 2018, 07:03 PM)
I spoke to some Malaysians and they think the same way. Every anak is rezeki. The more the better.

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If lose 1, 10 will rise

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post Aug 27 2018, 07:12 PM

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i tot we kenot say bad about philiphine.
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post Aug 27 2018, 07:14 PM

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Catholic church play the population game .. same thing in Mexico
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post Aug 27 2018, 08:31 PM

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QUOTE(Carlos Samuel @ Aug 27 2018, 10:24 PM)
Some pinoy moi very hnngghh
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yeah. with some many beautiful chicks there, no wonder they dont stop breeding. who wouldnt go crazy with that. plus they have balut+cola combo. thats instant aphrodisiac yo!

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