Why Philippine Professionals are Unemployed

Question: Sir John, there are many professionals and college graduates in Philippines who are unemployed and underemployed for a long period or sometimes permanently. Why is this happening?

ANSWER: There are many reasons, but I will only explain two.

1. GOVERNMENT TOLERATES UNPROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

The organization responsible and accountable for this fiasco is the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). In the Philippines, it is very common that consumers can easily find and get cheaper services of unlicensed professional practitioners. Just ask the tricycle drivers, most likely they know where you can find a cheaper unlicensed dentist or quack doctor. In real estate, 95% of the agents you can see in the malls are unlicensed, and they just freely expose themselves to the public. The government failed to enforce the law upon those who operate without profesional license. As a result, products and services are poor in quality, consumers are not protected, and the true professionals who follow ethics and quality standard lose in the competition with the unlicensed ones.

2. OLIGARCH LEADERS PROTECT THEIR BUSINESSES

Most of the high-ranking government officials we have now are oligarchs. Oligarchs have businesses, or are protecting some capitalist businesses. Capitalist businesses are very cruel, they derive profit from cheaper labor. There is cheap labor only in a condition of labor surplus is maintained or growing. When these oligarch President, Senators, Congressmen, and Department Secretaries tie-up with an "interlocking interest" with the capitalist businesses, they would not do something to improve the situation of the labor market. The oligarchs may not say this in public, but let me tell you that oligarchs love the existence of a large pool of poor people because this will ensure that labor is cheap and their profit is high.

Causes and Solution to Unemployment

QUESTION: Sir John, what are the causes of increase in unemployment rate?

ANSWER: (1) increasing machines replacing labor, (2) decreasing access to higher education, (3) increasing subsidies to nonproductive population, (4) decreasing creation of new private companies, (5) increasing environmental damage, (6) increasing importation, (7) capital flight, (8) land idling/hoarding.

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With the trend we are seeing around, it looks like unemployment and poverty will rapidly increase in unmanageable proportion. This is the reason why the rich capitalist/imperialist nations are working so hard to advocate reduction of population IN POOR COUNTRIES using friendly terms such as "Reproductive Health", "Population Control", "Contraceptives", "Safe Abortion", "Women's Right to Choose".

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Unemployment and poverty is stoppable. If you notice, any nation can do something to reverse all those 8 factors I mentioned. You just have to empower the private sector, eradicate the corruption in the government sector, and trust an egalitarian-type dictator leader who will consolidate all these efforts.

Laziness and Beggarship

A jobless member of the household who does not care to do chores is even more inutile than a vagrant beggar in the street who cooks his own food in a paint can under the bridge at the end of the day.

On Air Safety and PAL Pilot Mass Resignations

Philippine Airline flights are canceled because of Pilot mass-resignation. Pilots and flight attendants don't feel safe to work for an airline with a persistent mass labor disputes because the quality of service in the aircraft maintenance becomes doubtful. If I remember it right, there was a time in the past when an aircraft crashed while the airline employees are on the height of a labor dispute.

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