Category: Money Talks

Money matters. Indeed it does. How to make it, how to manage it when you get it, and how to spend it when you have too much of it.

Support Rappler! Why? Coz God’s Gift to Journalism cannot surivive on DATA alone

October 31, 2017October 31, 2017 benign0 7 Comments

Why should we “support Rappler”? Good question. Rappler is, supposedly, a business venture. It’s got investors who expect a return on their investment that is proportionate to the risk they’ve taken parking that money in Rappler’s books (i.e. more than, say, what they could have earned in interest had they invested those funds in a…

Media, Money Talks

Dissecting Rappler

October 24, 2017 Khayri R.R. Woulfe 8 Comments

OVERVIEW The embattled website Rappler.com have been through many issues and controversies since the dawn of the Duterte administration in the Philippines, alleged of misquoting the President, using fake photos, publishing fake news and propaganda, using questionable graphs and data, and putting various bloggers and netizens under bad light. In return, the President himself occasionally…

Wrong Filipino Attitudes about Work

October 18, 2017July 31, 2022 ChinoF 17 Comments

It’s easy to observe that some Filipinos don’t like work. Gogs wrote about why Filipinos don’t value work. Filipinos are afraid of failure before success and just want to become famous without any effort. But aside from that, I see a few other things about Filipino views toward work that may affect how they make…

Culture, Money Talks

The CBCP’s fake idea that the poor are “blessed” is the reason the Philippines remains poor

June 28, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

To Filipinos, rich people are “evil” and a life focused on the acquisition of money is a life to be ashamed of. And so there really is no reason to continue wondering why Filipinos remain an impoverished people today. The very idea of aspiring to be rich seems, to Filipinos, to be a thought to…

Culture, Money Talks, Religion, Society

Do immigrants steal jobs from their host country’s natives?

January 30, 2017January 30, 2017 benign0 7 Comments

The common-sense wisdom is that they do, because they work cheap. Take Silicon Valley. They lead the pack whining about a lack of “programming talent”. Their solution to that “challenge” is to (1) open America’s doors to immigrant “talent” and (2) convince girls that coding is a cool activity to engage in. The hope is…

Economy, Money Talks, Society

So why do you REALLY ‘celebrate’ Valentine’s Day?

February 14, 2016February 14, 2016 FallenAngel 6 Comments

No, really. Why DO you? Have you ever given it much thought? Yes, this is probably for many one of those “let’s not go there” topics. But we will go there, simply because I can. Why do you subject yourself to the hassle of having to compete with other couples in your neck of…

Lifestyle, Money Talks, Society

Next Philippine president should cut Ph dependence on easy OFW money

February 1, 2016 benign0 33 Comments

Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) rock. They number in the millions and, collectively, are the bedrock of the Philippine economy. They account for up to 10 percent of the value of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and fuel the massive expansion of the Philippines’ retail and entertainment industries. But the question most often asked about…

Development, Economy, Money Talks

Even intelligent people embrace dumbed-down thinking

January 11, 2016January 11, 2016 Kate Natividad 22 Comments

It’s no wonder people have gotten so dumbed-down that they are now considering electing the sorts of idiots we see on TV nowadays. I now question the theory that a lack of education or even a lack of intelligence contributes to the “tyranny of the majority” that results in dumb leaders ascending power or idiotic…

Education, Money Talks