SUBJECT: Principles of System Thinking

Group 6 Members:
Arayata, Arakazia
Bio, Justin
Francia, Shiena Mae Joan
Frondoza, Allyza
Nery, Leonardo
Pamesa, Julie Ann
Sabando, Ma. Sofia
Suarez, Nico

Questions prepared by the members

Topic Question
1. Overpopulation 1. How can family planning
• Frondoza, Allyza reduce overpopulation?
• Pamesa, Julie Ann 2. The following are the causes control to eliminate unplanned births.
of Overpopulation EXCEPT:
• Migration
• Poverty
• Unemployment
• Family Planning
Answer
1. Family planning helps reduce family
sizes by providing different forms of birth
Making family planning more accessible
to all people should help reduce
overpopulation in Philipines. Education
is also important in curbing rapid
population growth. Investing in
education is important because people
with an education, especially women,
generally tend to have fewer children.

2. C. UNEMPLOYMENT. The number

of positions available in companies is
always limited. Overpopulation makes
job creation difficult. The Asian Forum
News published a report that the labor
supply in overpopulated nations may be
too large to meet demand.
Unemployment is one of the effects of
Overpopulation.
2. Poverty 1. Why does Poverty still 1. Poverty can hit in the midst of a life-
• Sabando, Ma. Sofia exist? changing event, such as a significant
• Suarez, Nico 2. How does poverty affect health problem, job loss or a divorce.
society? When other risk factors, such as a
lack of funds, or a lack of family
support, are added, these crises can
be very painful. Poverty can be
caused by personal hardships-
physical, mental or emotional- and
many people who are poor lack
 emotional, psychological, or
financial assistance. Poverty can also
be the result of larger systems, such
as shifting market demand for skills
or labor, gaps in social safety nets,
expensive education and health care
cost, or institutional discrimination.
2. Unemployment and extremely low
salaries create an environment in
which children are unable to attend
school. As for those who can really
attend to school they simple don’t see
how hard effort may better their life
as they see their parents fail at the
endeavor everyday.
3. Great Depression 1. Among many factors POSSIBLE ANSWERS:
• Arayata, Arkazia that cause Great
Depression to happen, 1. The roaring 20’s
give one (1) factor and Since US was at their best decade, many
elaborate it. business created products in the markets
that weren’t affordable to the masses,
setting off a chain reaction that started
with the closing of factories and sudden
withdrawal of investments. When
spending was reduced, even more gods
on the market went unsold. With profits
falling, work forces had to be cut,
increasing poverty and fueling a negative
economic cycle.

2. Ensuing Global Crisis

The US was the prime exporter during the
time because they are the most successful
after the World War and was supplying
Europe with almost all commodities,
basic and advanced. The European
Governments that had taken loans from
American banks couldn’t pay them back
and one after the other started defaulting
on them. The American banks had no
option but to stop giving out loans which
then set the scene for the Great
Depression.

3. The Stock Market Crash

On October 24th stock prices had
collapsed. Successful recovery after
October 29th forced the stock prices up
but it was too late. Investors had lost
confidence in the stock exchange and
globally prices were dropping. The US
 was now slumping into economic
collapse and by 1932 the domino effect
forced the banking system to fail. On top
of this, people were migrating from farms
to cities in search of jobs. All this was too
hard on the economic structure in place
and now, more than 15 million people
were unemployed. 4. The Dust Bowl

Severe drought hit the US and Canadian

prairies during the 1930’s, which also
fueled the Great Depression. US
Agricultural output was heavily affected
by this drought and failure to apply dry-
landing farming methods forced the US
market to look for other sources. At the
same time, the farmers in the effected
region had no idea what to make of their
predicament. The situation worsened to
such a level that the majority of the
population of the Great Plains couldn’t
pay their taxes.

5. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

Introduced on March 13th , 1930 initially
with the intention of protecting American
companies, which put on a special tax
over 20,000 types of imported goods.
This was done so that American
companies wouldn’t lose to competition
to foreign companies but the nature of the
tax was such that It forced several
companies to stop exporting goods to the
US. This move came in the form od a
double edge sword as it reduced
production & revenue of all such
companies. Workforce had to be laid off,
fueling the economic crisis in their parent
country.
4. Unemployment 1. How can you address the 1. This era, we can easily to address the
• Bio, Justin problem of every problem through social media and
• Francia, Shiena Mae unemployment in our the rising of users of new technologies,
Joan country? we can easily to connect to others and
• Nery, Leonardo 2. What could be the rapidly know the issues of the specific
possible reasons of the country. In the Philippines we can
increase of address the problem of unemployment
Unemployment rate to using social media and it is convenient to
Philippines? Give at use to spread the issues or the problem
least two (2) that we had facing. According to the
reasons/factors. Dateportal the daily time spent using the
internet among the surveyed respondents
3. What are the different in the Philippines was approximately
types of 10.6 hours. In addition the surveyed
Unemployment? respondents spent approximately 4.15
hours in social media. We can see the
effectivity and flexibility of social media
if we address the unemployment in our
country if it is rising or below. The
problem of unemployment is the most
serious problem of our country because
of Pandemic crisis. According to the
Rappler unemployment rate jumps to
8.9% in September 2021.

2. POSSIBLE ANSWERS:

(1) Overpopulation - Philippines has

a high population growth rate at an
average of 1.7% for the past few years,
consistently higher than the world's
population growth rate at an average of
1.2%. The high population growth rate
which translates to a steady supply of
graduates outstrips the rate at which jobs
are created, leaving these graduates
finding themselves unemployed.

(2) Oversupply of labour force and

inability to take on available jobs
(structural unemployment)

Undergraduates are still taking up college

courses that are popular but were
previously high in demand. After
graduation, these graduates possess skills
that are not high in demand in the job
market. As such, there is a skill
mismatch.

3. Today’s economists point to two main

types of unemployment frictional and
structural. Frictional unemployment is
the result of voluntary employment
transitions within an economy. Frictional
unemployment naturally occurs, even in
a growing, stable economy as workers
change jobs. This type of unemployment
is often temporary and may be cyclical.
Structural unemployment can produce
permanent disruptions due to
fundamental and permanent changes that
occur in the structure of the economy that
marginalizes a group of workers.
Structural unemployment can b caused
by technological changes, a lack of
relevant skills, or jobs moving overseas
to another country.