Do you live in a country with a nonexistent manufacturing industry and all you do is export labor?For me, yes, I do. We don't know how to make/manufacture ANYTHING. I live in a country where a substantial amount of people work at night because we are slaves to the West. This country is hopeless.
Yes, the burden of a third country... suffering is realBtw>YUUUUUUUUUUHUUUUUHHUUUUUUUUUHUHUHUHHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHU
>>217995772YWNBAW
Don't you make snacks like boy bang or whatever?
>>217995772nobody can make anything anymore other than you know who
>>217995772vietnam is eating your lunch if Philippines was smarter they wouldve been decently positioned to capitalize on this tariff warbut no all the companies went to vietnam and their economy has exploded
>>217995802This is true, unironically.Have you even been to a shithole?>>217995867Who?>>217996507No we did not because my president is a retard.
you exported online friends to memany of my favorite such friends are filipinoso even if you didn't manufacture anything elseyou have manufactured a smile on my face
>>217996507>>217997227Uhm ACKTUALLY Philippine export growth grew 25% compared to last year because of trump's tarriffs
>>217997318yeah after collapsing more like a brief respite than anything else
phillipines still doesn't really qualify as a country, more of a colonyunfortunately you got independence early and did absolutely nothing with it, so your nation is now complete failure and always will continue to be
>>217997630shut up idiotyou make us look bad Philippines should be a friend
>>217995772You can't suffer in the Philpines. What's the worst thing that's happened to you? burnt you lips on Jollibee?
>>217997644I'm filipino and I beilive the phillipines should be spanish again. At least this way they'd have a functional currency and functional government again.
>>217998013>I'm filipinothis supposed to change anything you said...
>>217998013Flipinx when anything happens ever:
>>217995772Brazil really tries to force manufacturers and industries to move and produce things locally by imposing absurd taxes on pretty much everything imported. The consequence is that everything is super expensive here because most companies don't wanna set up shop in this decadent commie shithole, and importing anything comes with insane tariffs.For example, a mid-range GPU costs double in USD here, while the average brazilian earns 1/5 of what the average american does. Even by thirdie standards, that's pure suffering.
>>217998188yeah but your income tax is low enough that it makes it great for people like me who bought a nice little apartment in curitiba and want to fuck off from murica thanks brazil
>>217998013Are you a Filipino or a Filipino-American?>>217997599>>217997318Yes, it's true. That's why we will suffer forever, it's just a rollercoaster of ups and downs. Even my city is now shittier than before.>>217997317Tell me more about your online filipino friends, anon.
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>>217995772Don't worry ANON, the Philippines manufactures hot men we love sucking the dicks of.
>>217996507Vietnam just have a geographic advantage we dont have they are a unified land near the logistics center of China. Meanwhile we are seperated fragmented islands in the middle of the sea. Since we are scattered islands, electricity, utility, and transport costs, would naturally be higher and we cant change that because it is a hard fact of Geography.
>>217998557if it was just about geography then how come my amd chip says 'made in malaysia' on it or how tf did taiwan become the way it is japan faces the same storms no there are other factors and what do you need to go around transporting it across different islands when youre importing machinery then exporting the product
>>217998557High-end electronics are being made in Malaysia and new EV battery systems in Indonesia.You literally have no excuse
>>217998661Lol Taiwan is just one Island not many likewise 80% of Malaysia's population is just concentrated on one Peninsula the Malay Peninsula. As for Japan despite them having many island they actually have only one main large island, Honshu.Whereas with the Philippines, the population is evenly distributed among multiple small islands. We cant achieve economies of scale with just single island nations like Taiwan and Japan wherein one plant can serve the entire island. Meanwhile every God damm small island needs its seperate plant and port and road here which makes all costs far more expensive.
>>21799874980% of Malaysia's population is concentrated in the Malay Peninsula and 60% of Indonesia in Java island.Whereas 80% of us are scattered in multiple small islands.
>>217997317Yes I love Filipinos. Especially Filipino men. The Filipinos should "export" their penises into my mouth.
>>217998767>many island they actually have only one main large island, Honshu.>mfw living in hokkaido
>>217998966I feel da same. I have two houses one in Luzon island were the capital is and one in Panay island, one of the small islands in the Visayas region. Our income in Luzon 20x higher than in Panay even though the population is evenly spread across the archipelago. Its a common experience in archipelagic countries like Japan or the Philippines were the main island gets all the economic activity while the smaller islands gets left behind. Im guessing its the same case with Hokaido as Panay
>>217998767luzon itself is 3x bigger than taiwanand taiwan is much more mountainousoh course it is a disadvantage but it's not as significant as you claim
>>217999097the difference is japan only has 5 main islands where vast majority of the population lives which makes logistics way simpler
>>217999097No, actually, the wage gap isn't that significant.add everything is cheaper in Hokkaido than on Honshu.Food and housing alike.It's just that the winter lasts longer than on Honshu, so heating costs are higher.However, it is true that many people aspire to move to Tokyo, where there are numerous attractive job opportunities. This is particularly true for young women.
>>217999097Oh look, another galaxy-brain take blaming the map for everything. Because apparently tectonic plates personally sat the Philippines down and said, “Sorry champ, no productive forces for you.” The geographic determinism routine would be adorable if it weren’t so lazy. Same latitude? Check. Same monsoons? Check. Same archipelagic headaches? Check. And yet somehow Malaysia is churning out high-end electronics and Indonesia is scaling up battery manufacturing while your argument is still stuck blaming humidity and islands. Funny how the equator seems perfectly fine with fabs and factories everywhere else.What’s really doing the work here isn’t geography, it’s the familiar comprador petit-bourgeois reflex: externalize responsibility, romanticize constraints, and quietly absolve decades of policy choices, rent-seeking, deindustrialization, and an allergy to industrial planning. It’s much more comfortable to curse the tropics than to talk about land reform that never happened, industrial policy that never stuck, or capital that preferred quick import margins over long-term productive investment.Geography didn’t ban technology transfer. Geography didn’t decide to underfund R&D. Geography didn’t dismantle domestic manufacturing and replace it with malls and BPOs while neighbors built supply chains. Those were human decisions, very specific ones, made by very specific classes.So please, spare us the National Geographic essay. The problem isn’t that the country sits where it does; it’s that too many people would rather blame the weather than confront the political economy that keeps them comfortable while wondering why nothing gets built.
>>217999215malaysia is one thing but indonesia is a fucking messparticularly jakartalets not get ahead of ourselves
Filipinos work night shift with unpaid overtime yet the numbers never go up.
>>217999113Actually Luzon island has provinces with HDI levels similar to Qatar (A developed Arab country) or Portugal (Another Developed European country)...Qatar HDI - 0.886Portugal HDI - 0.890https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index-Philippines-Benget HDI - 88Manila - 85https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Philippine_provinces_and_regions_by_Human_Development_IndexHowever, the rest of the Philippines is pulling average down since all development ia concentrated in Luzon. If Luzon declared independence from other Philippine islands tommorow, it would a GDP per capita approaching that of Taiwan.But we want to develop everyone else as majority of thr population is outside Luzon island.
>>217999215It is true that island nations are at an economic disadvantage tho.
>>217998557Indonesia has 20x times the islands and has heavily industrialized within the past 10 years.
Luzon can be a semi developed nation if it declared independence from other Philippine islands.
>>217999334>If Luzon declared independence from other Philippine islands tommorow, it would a GDP per capita approaching that of Taiwan.If Luzon declared independence its economy would immediately collapse, lmao. How delusional are you. You think the places where corporations have their headquarters is where surplus gets extracted? How delusional.
>>217999493He's coping. That guy is a fucking lawyer by the way. How that guy is considered a "professional" baffles me.
>>217999363Most of the development is focused on Java island where most the population is. Meanwhile our's is evenly distributed across the whole archipelago.
>>217999528He is a petit bourgeois comprador colonial lapdog and landowner working in parasitic profession, basically modern day lower aristocracy. Literally the worst person you ask for opinions on productive industrial policy.
>>217999528Im not Michlan the Kaguyafag Lawyer from the former American designed city of Baguio-Benguet im another Anon.
>>217999215>>217999242Malaysia is strategically places in crucial sea lanes for maritime commerce between China and India the two most populous countries in the world. China and India invests hundreds of Billions into Malaysian companies. Whereas the Philippines is more isolated and receives less investments.Look at the transport map notice the thick red line (trafic) that passes by Malaysia but doesn't go near the Philippines?
>>217995772Fuckoff Michlan, you live in Baguio with a .900 HDI. You do not suffer
>>217999342offset by military advantage
>>217999368Nice map. Can you point out in the map what islands in the Philippines have the hottest men?
>>217999934>>217999578>>217999528>>217999565Why are you faggots so adamant at painting me as this rich dude when I am not?I grew up lower middle class. I've told you this 1000x already at this point.Also, Baguio is not first world, it is a shithole. Makati is also high HDI but it is a shithole full of trash and bums and so on.
>>217999950>millitary advantageancient era,yes.
>>217999493Luzon is not just corporate headquarters its also where BPOs and Services are.Actually if you measure us by a different metric GDP per square kilometer or GDP density we are intensely productive for our very small land area. We have the 3rd highest GDP density in Southeast Asia after developed nations Singapore and Brunei.Nobody realizes we are actually overperforming despite our damning geographic constraints. Instead they simply look at the negatives.https://youtu.be/Kvb0vtc5hxg?si=p8W7jf-wTNo4fVwV
>>218000070YUUUUUHHHH!
>>218000070Stop pretending that Baguio isn't a place people in the country dream of living in.
As someone who's handling a family business, I'll tell you this:1. Manufacturing is almost impossible to set up without having a lots of money as a capital investment, because Philippines lacks so many raw materials that we import from neighboring countries i.e rubber from Indonesia, cotton from Pakistan or Uzbekistan etc.2. Business tax rate is fucked up on top of crippling corruption on customs and internal revenue. You hear about the latest issue about BIR handling LOA to businesses? Most businesses settle their LOAs for 500k - 20m just so BIR agents can stop harassing them.3. Raising minimum wage is killing MSMEs further. Notice how everything gets even more expensive whenever there are decrees to raise minimum wages nationwide, businesses have no choice to cope but to raise their prices on their goods as well. It's an endless cycle.
>>218000383This is a lie. Just stop. This city is going to shit. HDI is a meme. Everybody knows this.
>>218000055It seems that you like the looks of Mestizo Flips (Spanish and Mexican) so I prompted Google AI Gemini to make a map out of data from these two Wikipedi Articles.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Filipinoshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_settlement_in_the_PhilippinesHope it answers your question!
>>218000799puking ina mo ka sana reypin ka ng mga wampipti sa cubao tangina mo
>>218000849Hindi mo pah gusto, na ang mga dayuhan pah ang bibong-bibong gustong sumisipsip ng titi natin?
I edited the prompt for better results.
>>217999779While we may not have much International shipping traffic we have alot of internal shipping traffic. Maps of the Philippines is Kino to look at due to the complexity of our archipelagic nature.
