It's 2026, why are we Filipinos still poor?

 

Dayang Marikit

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Philippine History Professor

Not everyone here is poor… look around you, a lot of people are progressing, I have friends who bought condominium units and they've turned them into rental properties, each unit earns around 60,000 pesos a month. You need to surround yourself with positive and business minded people. The pandemic should've burst the condominium bubble, but prices bounced back within a year, this is due to strong domestic demand. Clearly a significant portion of the population have some money to spend. People have gotten way too comfortable stereotyping Filipinos as “poor”… I'm not saying that poverty doesn't exist here, but when people talk about Filipinos they make sweeping generalizations and they act as if the middle-class, upper-middle-class, and upper-class doesn't exist. The way people speak, you’d think that everyone here just live in slums.

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