That is the reason Filipinos are poor. We are not to delve on the failure of political leaders. That has been there since the Spanish times up to the present. More concerning is the failure of leaders of society who are not politicians. They should not compare themselves with the political kind who appear to be morally bankrupt and so incompetent in the performance of their mandates and are beyond redemption.
Are leaders in the private sector any different?
As has been said time and again, this country is rich. The problem is the inequitable distribution of wealth, rather opportunities. For people must not be thinking of dole outs. No! Hence, we emphasize opportunities where people must work in order to get what is due them to live decent lives.
A stark example are labor unions. They are raking in big money in the form of union dues. Those in big companies, could easily put up infirmaries or even hospitals for their members. They can come up with cooperatives for their members’ economic well-being. But their usual story is, only a few of them, their leaders are getting rich The members, most of them anyway, even after so many decades of employment remain as poor as rats When they get laid off due to irregularities which happens all the time, their kids often drop out of school.
How about other civil society leaders, are they exerting enough efforts to come up with cooperatives whose profits will redound to the benefits of their members? Only very few ever bother to. The majority would say, “Why should I get into a big headache?”
Yet such leaders who are thinking of the welfare of their members are the hope of this nation to attain a more equitable spreading of the wealth being created all the time. As of now, only members of a few big families are raking in big profits. While there are so many reasons for this, the inability of group leaders to lead their members to higher economic grounds is one very big factor.**.