"Other unions that ... wages, people, wages!" - Aperally
The minimum wage "union" to a waiter, a salesman, and gender roles, and 285 pesos (that is, until today € 4.69) per day.
But it is not always granted. The guards, for example, that there are not only banks, but also in hotels, shopping centers, various shops, Mac Donalds ... work with 12-hour shifts, without a day off, for 160 pesos a day, less than 5,000 pesos (€ 82) per month, in practice only enough to buy rice and vegetables, and renting a dump extreme (a single room, but worse than My Dublin ...)
There's obviously people - of which I felt this time not to take pictures - sleeping on the streets, in cardboard boxes or directly on the ground (children and adults, even in daylight) that maybe has a stand of some kind, and which survives with 20-30 € per month.
Just to realize, I pay 1188 pesos (19.5 €) per day, here at the hotel.
Now, since I do not understand economics, I do not know exactly what they are due, not only the misery, but more specifically this very low level of wages: too many people + church + no condoms = 10 children? Endemic corruption that discourages foreign investment also?
Of course you notice that, probably as in other Third World countries, the middle class has very limited extension : a few wealthy owners, and a vast mass of poor.
How unfortunate consequence of all this - not so much real danger - but the fact that the foreigner is seen as a walking ATM machine , and that in practice constantly try to fuck on prices. Taxi drivers who claim that their meter is broken, goods, so if there is no label, you are asked to double or triple the value, etc ... Or not trying to trick us, but they try anyway saddled with something. Why Filipinos are very hospitable and open people, but then he always goes into the discourse deals refuse service that is evil, the latest family tragedy, and the idea that a western gift them the money (and therefore was entitled to pluck at least a little).
I understand the constant financial worries (and read newspapers suicides related to them). But all this, the long, tired.
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