I was waiting for a cab the other day in Greenhills at around 9pm , so everybody was on their way home which made it more challenging to get a cab back to Manila. I stood inside the Taxi Queue and it seems that the cabs are not getting inside the line. After a while I noticed that people are getting in the cabs at different places except the Taxi Queue. I was dumbfounded.
After a couple of failed attempts to hail a cab, I finally got one. Immediately I got into a conversation with the driver.
Me: Kuya, bakit ayaw mo magsakay dun sa may mga nakapila na?
Driver: Alam mo kasi, kapag umaga at walang tao, pinapa alis kami. Kaya kapag madaming tao bawi kami! HAHA, wala kasing pakisama yang mga yan e.
After a while, the driver continues to relay a story to me.
Driver: Nung isang araw nga e, nakita ko yung paborito kong security guard. Pinapunta ako sa isang tabi kala ko pinapa alis ako. Yun pala may pasahero siya dun na nagbigay sa kanya.
Me: Anong ginawa?
Driver: Binigyan na siya. Inabutan na siya ng isang daan para di na pumila. Ang okay dun sila pa nangontrata sa akin, panalo!
As I was sitting there, a lot of concepts were running in my mind. Am I being to idealistic of what is happening in the world? Is the Philippine Real World so messed up that even though that I know a lot of concepts, I could still not totally grasp what is really happening. It kinda seems that way.
This bribing thing is reminiscent of what is happening in the government. Everyone gets by with a fixer, a barker, lagay, kotong, and padulas among others. It seems that we have a good system but we lack rules, most especially enforcement. This is why corruption is so rampant. PNoy would say Walang Mahirap, Kung Walang Corrupt, but the people under him are not even open for scrutiny as to what they are doing with the money they get. It is as if that it is their own money already and that no one could touch or ask about it. Given the fact that they are lawmakers, they accept a lot of bribes from Trans National and even local companies, so that they would not create laws that would make these businesses' lives harder. Also, no rule or law could ever be done with regards to their transparency because no one would vote for it.
In Systems Thinking, this is a very powerful leverage point: Structure of Information Flow. If the people will be able to access a real-time live counter of what every government official is spending then there would be no corruption or if ever there is, then the people know the facts which is why they would have a stronger sense of urgency to stop the corruption from happening.
What is happening now is that these corrupt fools are keeping us in the dark. Any figure shown in the news by a whistleblower could be deemed correct or could be deemed false. It is in the ambiguity and the vagueness of what they do that is why they are so powerful. But if all information about them are totally disclosed, then I believe it would be an altogether different story.
One way or another, this sudden increase in corruption would lead to an implosion within the system, which would lead to a more rampant and out of this world corruption scheme, and then again the system will collapse. Again a call for more ridiculous ways of corruption techniques would be done by these fools.
This is a positive feedback loop wherein the more power it gets, the more powerful it would become in the future. If this goes on and on infinitely, it would be the beginning of the death of the Philippines.
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