 The gap between the rich and the poor has become has widened some more.

 The minimum wage is P404 here in cebu and Choks to go roasted chicken is P230 pesos that is
57%
 In the US and Japan, a roasted chicken would be just about 6 to 7% of the least wage and in
Australia the cost of roasted chicken would just be 3%
 Most of the poor are constructions workers and drivers, business there are in the malls as
baggers, sales ladies
 DURING THE PANDEMIC YOU Could see EE FOR YOURSELF HOWTHE POOR SUFFERED AND
THERE WAS NOT MUCH OPTIONs FR THE POOR
 The philipipines is an agricultureal country but we remain to be the LARGERST IMPORTER OF
RICE IN THE WORLD when we could have built a framework whereby the poor can till, cultivate
the land
 CAPITALISM IS UNSTOPPABLE and the govt is beholden is not independent to make program for
the mass porble has given in that is the CORE PROBLEM HENCE
 The core of the problem is engraved from the economic framework whereby push for options
 A government who would stand up to capital and
 Everything becomes systemic, becomes part of the culture
 The idea that we are poor there is not much we can do
 I am glad in away that the pandemic has in a way level the playing field pushing for the use of
the