I was read this article that I saw in facebook and it made me want to write something. Here's the link:
http://filipinofreethinkers.org/2010/12/09/the-hr-bill-mutants-and-the-man-called-ona/
This article kind of low-balled the Church but its funny nonetheless. On more pressing things, I believe that it is unfair for us (people who support the RH bill) to command or sway other people of what they should do with their families, if they want to fuck because of boredom and have 10 more children then they are more than willing to do so. All we are doing is giving them choices and showing the consequences of what they are doing in the grand scheme of things.
With whatever action that we do we want sustainability. We want to be able to support or do something that could be done and used by the future generations. This is why we dont want more population because more people is equal to more people who will have more children and the cycle will continue on. And soon enough the economy will collapse. Please do not be deluded that we have the resources to support this but at this rate we will break down in the very near future.
In the same way, I believe that Sustainability is what the Church wants. If they give in and give away some of their power to the RH Bill argument, then a big chunk of their influence would go away. Also this would give them a perception, that the Church could be swayed into the other side via the use of rational reasoning. I believe that they want to maintain this vague, ambiguous, and yet ever so powerful kind of reasoning and influence. The one that could just randomly excommunicate people irrationally, vaguely in an ambiguous manner. This is a Sustainability of Power.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Are we ready for Globalization?
Sure, we have a lot of pros and cons for Globalization, there would be a long list if we try to put it all down, but the question really is: Are we ready for it?
Globalization promotes competitiveness. It creates a tight market where all the competitors are trying to entice the customers to buy the different companies' respective products. I believe that enticing customers, for the most part is all about Pricing. But have you ever wondered how they make the products go so low?
There are a lot of trade-offs involved. As I was doing my interview for the Video Project, my boss (Alex Tolentino, see video) said something about declining product quality. As we are now facing it, prices are going lower and lower, and so does quality. To be able to make such low priced products companies are cutting costs and short-changing processes. If you would think about it, it is a double edge sword. As foreign importers offer low priced products, they produce it via cheap labor, in the end does people doing the labor in their home country receive less so their standard of living goes lower as well. In our country, the one being importing foreign products, as we get more enticed with lower prices, our own products (if we ever have one) are not being sold as much. In this light, our products are priced higher to catch up with previous losses, but then it would not be able to sell because of the cheaper foreign products. The point being is that, with stiffer competition, our locally produced products are not being consumed, thus lowering the standard of life of our own workers.
In this train of thought, only the people or countries who have the better technology and does not have enough market in their place of origin to dump their products at, would be the ones richer. Those who do not have the same capacity would try to react on what is going on, until finally they would not be able to keep up. As we continue with this we might become a totally importing country and become overly dependent on other countries.
I do not want to become conservative with this issue but are we not better off producing our own and consuming our own. Yes, the competition is good for the consumers - only for the short run - but in the end we suffer. I believe that it is when we are producing our own products for ourselves and also we have the capacity to offer products to other countries that we should become totally open for the rules of globalization. As for now, we should keep our thoughts straight, and start doing something for our own until we are globally capable of competition.
Globalization promotes competitiveness. It creates a tight market where all the competitors are trying to entice the customers to buy the different companies' respective products. I believe that enticing customers, for the most part is all about Pricing. But have you ever wondered how they make the products go so low?
There are a lot of trade-offs involved. As I was doing my interview for the Video Project, my boss (Alex Tolentino, see video) said something about declining product quality. As we are now facing it, prices are going lower and lower, and so does quality. To be able to make such low priced products companies are cutting costs and short-changing processes. If you would think about it, it is a double edge sword. As foreign importers offer low priced products, they produce it via cheap labor, in the end does people doing the labor in their home country receive less so their standard of living goes lower as well. In our country, the one being importing foreign products, as we get more enticed with lower prices, our own products (if we ever have one) are not being sold as much. In this light, our products are priced higher to catch up with previous losses, but then it would not be able to sell because of the cheaper foreign products. The point being is that, with stiffer competition, our locally produced products are not being consumed, thus lowering the standard of life of our own workers.
In this train of thought, only the people or countries who have the better technology and does not have enough market in their place of origin to dump their products at, would be the ones richer. Those who do not have the same capacity would try to react on what is going on, until finally they would not be able to keep up. As we continue with this we might become a totally importing country and become overly dependent on other countries.
I do not want to become conservative with this issue but are we not better off producing our own and consuming our own. Yes, the competition is good for the consumers - only for the short run - but in the end we suffer. I believe that it is when we are producing our own products for ourselves and also we have the capacity to offer products to other countries that we should become totally open for the rules of globalization. As for now, we should keep our thoughts straight, and start doing something for our own until we are globally capable of competition.
Ang Batang Parating Api
Just a while back, I was hanging around with my friends until a beggar kid came. She was asking money from the people around. I personally know this kid and how her life is. She goes out everyday to ask money from people so that she would have enough money to bring home so that she and her lola could eat a little bit of something. Today, I got irked by her persistence to ask for money. She was up to a point that she was already harassing my friend. At the end, she failed and she said something like:
"Napakadamot mo, Barya nga lang e!"
My only irk with kids like these is that for the most part they grow up to become good for nothing dependent people. They wait for others to help them and thats the only thing that they do. As they grow up, the pity that they used to get from people would fade away and that they could not get money anymore. That is when they turn into Juvenile Delinquents and future schemers & criminals. As much as I do not want to generalize, the path seems clear until a proper intervention is done but as they always say: Bad Habits die hard.
This is a clear manifestation of the inequality with the distribution of wealth in the country. As this inequality becomes clearer, it instills a mindset with the poor people; that they would be helped by the government and the richer people. When one thinks about this, it is not the case. They are supposed to help themselves, other people could only do so much for them. Their mindset have spread all over their socio economic status, and for the most part everyone is just waiting to be helped and to depend on someone.
Hey, for what's its worth my great granparents were also poor, my grandparents were not that well off but it is all about the mindset that they had. They wanted to get out of the hell hole so they worked their asses off just so that they could provide a better future for their children and grandchildren.
Just my two cents.
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