Recall back in mid-October where I describe an elegantly simple take on Pinoy poverty:

Poverty in the Philippines is a simple issue to me as it comes down to this simple textual equation:

We locked ourselves into commitments beyond any inherent ability in us to honour them.

I go further and enumerate four key parameters around which we can describe and measure the overcommitments that contribute to our poverty.

;) Population
;) Consumption
;) Production
;) Capital

And now the great news folks!

I’ve since developed the above into a full-blown framework that is, of course, utterly elegant in its simplicity!

It’s so great, in fact, that I think I’ll call it:

The Ultimate Poverty Framework™.

Fear not, as I will later on describe it in all its groundbreaking detail in a proper GRP-grade article in my excellent website (watch that space!).

But for now I provide a sneak preview of its diagrammatical form:

Using the above visual tool, we can now easily see why a chronic inability to get ALL FOUR parameters right results in the basket-case rash-from-hell-like quality of poverty that afflicts Third World countries like Ours Truly. Erase one of the four pillars and you end up with an unstable structure and an unavoidable erasure of the single line that leads to that golden spot at the top where winners take ALL.

A society whose “strengths” lie primarily in population and consumption (bato-bato sa langit…) is DOOMED. When we lack scalability (i.e. disengagement of the volume of productive output from the volume of labour input), we doom ourselves to a no-results economy pathetically dependent on labour-added-value.

It’s that simple. Really™.

When we highlight the really really simple reality that the road to sustainable wealth is uncompromising, one would hope that we waste less time on irrelevant jibber jabber about our mediocre politics and the posturings of the even more mediocre actors in that theatre.

Full treatise on The Ultimate Poverty Framework, coming soon here. Stay tuned! :D

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