Pinoys are generally poor?

[biik]

That's why pinoys are very relaxed and buy wants more than their needs is because there isn't that much pressure for survival. You know why?

Family support - gamay ra kaayong cases nga dili gyud ta makapangayo bisan gamay sa atong kapamilya. In fact, tungod closed family-tied kaayo ta, bisan nangaminyo na pabuhi gihapon sa mama. Because of the lack of pressure to be independent... mas relaxed ang taw... and dili mapugos ug save and persevere. In times of adversaries we strive to be better and of course to be cautious of our income and our spending. This is sooo true.

[jcos]

ayaw sad pag ingun ana bro.. Time comes filipino will emerge due to that things. Basta as long as maninguha gyud ta ug trabahon dili mag cge ug reklamo.

[brad]

third world mang god ta. poor leaders. maningkanot kono tag panitag oil sa atoa para ma rich ta.

[lightning_mcqueen95]

Pobre gyud ta ani diri... ang datu ma datu pag ayo. ang Poor ma poor gyud hehehe..
Ang uban nasud dato gyud sila labi na US, Japan ug uban pang mga nasud kay usa ra gyud ang
hinungdan ana....

HYPERWAGE ra gyud... kun dako pa unta ta og sweldo diri aww daghan ang mabulahannnn

[Gwynhuever]

...depends on each person's definition of poor....maybe financially poor i agree.....pero daghan pa man sad richness nga puede i-acquire nga way monetary value....so di gihapon ko maka ingon nga pobre na lang jud....dato man in other ways....

[simoncpu]

Pobre gyud ta ani diri... ang datu ma datu pag ayo. ang Poor ma poor gyud hehehe..
Ang uban nasud dato gyud sila labi na US, Japan ug uban pang mga nasud kay usa ra gyud ang
hinungdan ana....

HYPERWAGE ra gyud... kun dako pa unta ta og sweldo diri aww daghan ang mabulahannnn

I've read about Hyperwage pseudo-theory a while back. Medyo skeptical lang ko kay basin maka-cause ug economic collapse ang gi propose nga wage increase. I mean, how can a small businessman start a business if he has to pay a janitor 20T pesos?

[ simon.cpu ]

[yokam]

Let's try to look at some general causes of poverty:

Acute causes of poverty:

Agricultural cycles --> People who rely on fruits and vegetables that they produce for household food consumption (subsistence farmers) often go through cycles of relative abundance and scarcity. For many families that rely on subsistence production for survival, the period immediately prior to harvest is a 'hungry period.' During these periods of scarcity, many families lack sufficient resources to meet their minimal nutritional needs. Being familiar with these cycles has enabled development practitioners to anticipate and prepare for periods of acute need for assistance.

Droughts and Flooding --> Besides the immediate destruction caused by natural events such as hurricanes, environmental forces often cause acute periods of crisis by destroying crops and animals.

Natural Disasters --> Natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes have devastated communities throughout the world. Developing countries often suffer much more extensive and acute crises at the hands of natural disasters, because limited resources inhibit the construction of adequate housing, infrastructure, and mechanisms for responding to crises.

Entrenched factors associated with poverty:

Colonial Histories --> One of the most important barriers to development in poor countries is lack of uniform, basic infrastructure, such as roads and means of communication. Some development scholars have identified colonial history as an important contributor to the current situation. In most countries with a history of colonization, the colonizers developed local economies to facilitate the expropriation of resources for their own economic growth and development.

Centralization of Power --> In many developing countries, political power is disproportionately centralized. Instead of having a network of political representatives distributed equally throughout society, in centralized systems of governance one major party, politician, or region is responsible for decision-making throughout the country. This often causes development problems. For example, in these situations politicians make decisions about places that they are unfamiliar with, lacking sufficient knowledge about the context to design effective and appropriate policies and programs.

Corruption --> Corruption often accompanies centralization of power, when leaders are not accountable to those they serve. Most directly, corruption inhibits development when leaders help themselves to money that would otherwise be used for development projects. In other cases, leaders reward political support by providing services to their followers.

Warfare --> Warfare contributes to more entrenched poverty by diverting scarce resources from fighting poverty to maintaining a military. Take, for example, the cases of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The most recent conflict over borders between the two countries erupted into war during 1999 and 2000, a period when both countries faced severe food shortages due to drought.

Environmental degradation --> Awareness and concern about environmental degradation have grown around the world over the last few decades, and are currently shared by people of different nations, cultures, religions, and social classes. However, the negative impacts of environmental degradation are disproportionately felt by the poor. Throughout the developing world, the poor often rely on natural resources to meet their basic needs through agricultural production and gathering resources essential for household maintenance, such as water, firewood, and wild plants for consumption and medicine. Thus, the depletion and contamination of water sources directly threaten the livelihoods of those who depend on them.

Social Inequality --> One of the more entrenched sources of poverty throughout the world is social inequality that stems from cultural ideas about the relative worth of different genders, races, ethnic groups, and social classes. Ascribed inequality works by placing individuals in different social categories at birth, often based on religious, ethnic, or 'racial' characteristics. In South African history, apartheid laws defined a binary caste system that assigned different rights (or lack thereof) and social spaces to Whites and Blacks, using skin color to automatically determine the opportunities available to individuals in each group.

Source: http://www.gdrc.org/icm/poverty-causes.htm

Overpopulation, the situation of having large numbers of people with too few resources and too little space, is closely associated with poverty. It can result from high population density (the ratio of people to land area, usually expressed as numbers of persons per square kilometer or square mile) or from low amounts of resources, or from both. Excessively high population densities put stress on available resources. Only a certain number of people can be supported on a given area of land, and that number depends on how much food and other resources the land can provide. In countries where people live primarily by means of simple farming, gardening, herding, hunting, and gathering, even large areas of land can support only small numbers of people because these labor-intensive subsistence activities produce only small amounts of food.

Because people in developed nations may have more wealth and resources than those in developing countries, their standard of living is also generally higher. Thus, people who have what would be considered adequate wealth and resources in developing countries may be considered poor in developed countries. People in the United States, for example, may expect to make, on average, about $30,000 each year. They also probably expect to rent an apartment or own a house with electricity and running water, to be able to afford to eat and dress well, and to receive quality health care. In addition, many people aspire to afford discretionary expenses—that is, purchases unessential to survival, such as cars, higher-priced foods, and entertainment.

In contrast, people in developing countries may consider themselves to be doing well if they have productive gardens, some livestock, and a house of thatch or mud-brick. In rural areas, people may be accustomed to not having plumbing, electricity, or formal health care. By the standards of developed countries, such living conditions are considered hallmarks of poverty.

Developed countries also tend to have a high cost of living. Even the most basic lifestyle in these countries, with few or no luxuries, can be relatively expensive. Most people in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, western European nations, and other developed countries cannot obtain adequate food, clothing, and shelter without ample amounts of money. In some areas, even people with jobs that pay the legal minimum wage may not be able to cover their basic expenses. People who cannot find or maintain well-paying jobs often have no spare income for discretionary or emergency expenses, and many rely on government welfare payments to survive.

Illiteracy and lack of education are common in poor countries. Governments of developing countries often cannot afford to provide for good public schools, especially in rural areas. Whereas virtually all children in industrialized countries have access to an education, only about 60 percent of children in sub-Saharan Africa even attend elementary school. Without education, most people cannot find income-generating work. Poor people also often forego schooling in order to concentrate on making a minimal living. In addition, developing countries tend to have few employment opportunities, especially for women. As a result, people may see little reason to go to school.

There are differing beliefs about individual responsibility for poverty. Some people believe that poverty is a symptom of societal structure and that some proportion of any society inevitably will be poor. Others feel that poverty results from a failure of social institutions, such as the labor market and schools. These people feel that poverty is beyond the control of those who experience it, but might be remedied if appropriate policies were enacted. Other people feel that the poor intentionally behave in ways that cause or perpetuate their poverty. For instance, if people voluntarily choose to use drugs and this leads them to poverty, it can be argued that they are to blame for their situation. However, such an argument cannot completely explain cases in which poverty leads to drug dependence.

Source: http://www.fightpoverty.mmbrico.com/poverty/reasons.html

**Basically, Philippines almost got a perfect, if not really got a perfect score in the aforementioned causes and factors. So Filipinos generally are poor.

[Empress_Of_Drac]

ang kapobre sa pinoy is related sa atong kababaw sa kalipay kunu. Based on study pinoys are the 2nd most happiest people in Asia. Gamay lang kwarta lipay dayun! they dont mostly think of the future.

What do you think? Is this true? If its true, is it good?

Look at the people from the rich countries gamay problema hikog dayun.

hahahahaha...i guess murag positive correlation kaayu na...i mean kanang pagkamabaw ug kalipay sa pinoy ug ang pagkapobre sa pinoy...

anyways, naa daw to researcher gikan US ba...then nagresearch siya ngano daw malipayon pirmi mga tawo diri sa pilipinas bisan pirmi gibagyo, pobre kaau ug uban pa...nacurious kaau sila ba...so, nagconduct sila ug research sa Payatas...and then naobserbahan nila nga pirti bahua sa lugar...daghan kaayong mga langaw...pero hibulong sila ang mga bata kay lingaw man kaau nagduwa-duwa, naay mga mamasurahay nga gasige pagkanta-kanta...ang mga tawo kay malipayon kaau ug dagway ba...ass inn dili jud niya marelate ang disposition sa mga pinoy sa ilang culture...so mao na ilang naconclude nga naa daw sakit sa utok ang mga pinoy...ahehehehe...pagkaimmoral!!!

lay nada ilang research...

[malaki]

another thing, colon lots and buildings are usually owned by chinese disidents.

ang yuta man gud ipamaligya sa mga katiguwangan kay aron makakaon ug lechon, inum ug beer ug uban pa, hehehehe.....

[jiggy101]

Yah i think the pinoys religion has a lot to do with our sorry state.