Blog for poverty

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On Poverty:

Unlike some who enjoy talking about poverty as if it were a phenomenon to be di
ssected clinically or pondered about vicariously, I am a person who can say tha
t it is one that I have not only personally experienced even if briefly, but ha
ve resolved to get to the root of if only to vindicate and validate the persona
l closure I have felt once I got out of it. Hence this brief personal intro.

From a family of fairly extensive means our material situation deteriorated wit
h the decline in the Philippine economy that followed the decontrol-devaluation
shock during the late 50s that itself was caused by years of political irrespo
nsibility and poor policy choices. By the time my parents started to get sickly
(in high school) it became fairly evident that we had joined the ranks of the
genuinely impoverished. No need to dwell on the specifics, just that life has n
ever been tougher ever since. Only luck through family connections, good educa
tion and true grit allowed us to pull ourselves from such horrowing situation.

This brief but severe encounter with life's punishing harshness would shape my
outlook and choices in life. Immediately after graduating in engineering, I too
k advanced degrees in economics, business and political systems to allow me to
better understand the problem. I joined and volunteered in causes that allowed
me to observe, first hand, the close interactions between poverty, the poor and
decisions made at each societal level.
For a good two decades, I can say that I lived, breathed and ate everything tha
t I could find about poverty, day in day out.

Ultimately I had to migrate abroad to see and understand personally, what other
causes and factors behind poverty that were unique to the culture and society
that I was born into. This was confined not only to the country where I migrate
d to but many countries, at all economic and political stages, all over the wor
ld where I had the opportunity to work, travel, teach, do business with.

From that vantage point I have arrived at a few conclusions. I do not claim to
have found THE Holy Grail about poverty, but I do believe it is may be better t
han those whose experiences are only limited to reading books, journals, emails
, blogs, attending seminars, presenting papers or writings of others of similar
idological or political persuasions. I will spare the reader the onus of readi
ng through these conclusions, save for one - which is that poverty is not at al
l the product of a man's (or even a groups') subjugation by forces outside thei
r control. It is not entirely about oppression. It is not about
class warfare and let alone is it about ideology or morality which are not opia
tes but cop outs and excuses for inability to respond to stimuli and act accoun
tably.

Instead, it is about poor choices that those who lack information commit, not s
o much because they are manipulated (though it is part of the human lot) but be
cause they do not have the means to process such (always complex) time sensitiv
e information and to act on it properly. In this regard poverty is more a produ
ct of systems that malfunction and are unable to optimize (not balance out) res
ource distribution, not because of greed (which has redeeming elements that can
only be divorced from the bad ones at great peril to freedom and even worse su
bstitutes), but simply because the information gets skewed and atrophied, which
is the characteristic and inevitable end of all systems (entrophy).

From this perspective, which to those who prefer more emotional explanations ma
y seem to be too dispassionate, this
writer has come to conclude that poverty is the lot of humans when systems are
simply not able to function well. Societies will always stratify themselves int
o those who have and those who don't have, the degree of skewness only being a
function of the quality of information and the character of those who choose to
act on it. All the pomposity, the grandiloquence and even the feigned hurt by
tinkerers (for political ends) just confuse the system's ability to sort the me
ss out.

Unfortunately it is what this life time of searching has come down to - and its
implcation is simple - do not moralize or cast this noble mission as one of a
battle between "right" and "wrong" (or least of all between "right" and "left")
. It simply is a product of a system that malfunctions, for which there are pro
per solutions depending on specific circumstances.
To lose one's head and cast this as a righteous crusade and other guilt trips m
ay serve personal ends, but run the risk of worsening the problem itself. Just
look at how China (and now India) effected the most successful economic uplifti
ng of the poor in history, compared to the very emotional and mostly politicize
d way that other countries (like the Philippines) have tried to do it and one c
an see the destructive effects of emotions on such a problem as complex as back
wardness.

I would like to get involved on this humanitarian project. Please note that my
blog, http://economicdisasterphilippines.blogspot.com
dated Aug 6, 2008 discussed briefly my concerns regarding poverty and overpopul
ation in the Philippines.

Cool, will have to think about that for a bit..

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