In theory, if you put in a day's work, you get a day's pay. If you work and do your best, the rewards would come in equal proportion. Competition is alive but it is of the healthy kind, the one that motivates and drives you to be the better and the best of what you do. Everyone has a place under the sun. The sun is continually around, until sunset comes, and its satellite takes its place.
Sadly, the Philippines is not such a world.
Wealth is not always earned rightfully and righteously. Rights are often conjured and imagined . And more often than not, people hear the words uttered, "Bad things can, do and will happen to good people."
Seeing no one can rightfully claim absolute goodness in deed, worse/st things that happen are often taken with a degree of equanimity.
To accept such premise may be pragmatic. It could also be the undoing of such undertakings as MoneyMe. For while we promote ways to get more and get rich the old fashioned way of hard work, diligence and intelligence, there is always the unknown and known variable that the bad elements out there can take everything away from you at a whim.
Sure you can put up a fight. You can win sometimes. You can die sometimes too. Oh how many the sad stories of people defending their basic rights to a cellphone lose their life to criminals and thieves intent on claiming that which they have not worked for!!!
Is the death justified?
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In a society where personal rights and enrichment are possible, this framework of possibilities can only be guaranteed by a corrupt-free government that provides the objective platform upon which grievances can be heard, among others. Capitalism will not work if the same society is ran by thugs without respect of human rights, property rights, and everything else that is right.
No rational way of life is possible under conditions of irrationality.
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There is a scene in The Day The Earth Stood Still when in the attempt to convince the alien species to spare humanity from destruction, a Nobel laureate argued, "At the brink, at the precipice, people can change (for the better)." Or something to that effect.
I hope that my beloved Philippines is in this brink in 2010.
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"Bad things can happen to good people."
But.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
I may be over reaching, but surely there is a causality here that is just too obvious to ignore.
MoneyMe
email: steve78ph@gmail.com
I share the frustration. Just a question - are bad things happening because the "imagined rights " are exercised way below the 'how it should be exercised', or is it because the imagined rights of the people, the government, even private sectors are way above it?
ReplyDeleteImagined rights cannot be exercised. Rights need to be legitimate, often earned with corresponding responsibilities, in order to be claimed.
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