Blabbering here, blabbering there. Blabber everywhere.

I honestly think that you have stripped yourself the right to complain about how fucked up the government or the society is if you are not doing anything about it. That's just plain hypocrisy.

I've learned in the few years I studied development concepts that people are poor, mostly, because of the lack of information. There are better opportunities, but since these information do not reach them, they remain under the claws of poverty.

However, this does not translate to re-posting articles or pictures or whatever you see on Facebook. The world needs action, not just a click of a button.

Though the power of social media has been proven so many times, still, these does not feed hungry mouths, or give out-of-school youth jobs, or shelter homeless families. The world needs a concrete, sustainable way of living.

"Bigyan mo naman ako ng raket," I said in jest to my former classmate in college. "I'm so sick of writing about poverty alleviation." She giggled, "You're lucky, you get to write about those things," she replied.

Unlike some bastards from the other side of the world who feels like the world owe them something for clicking share on articles about issues they think should be relevant, I witness how committed agents of change work their ass off to make better lives for the poor people and their families everyday. Indeed, I am lucky I belong to a group of people working towards development.

If you equate poverty to a lack of money, though, then we have a problem here. Yes, the love for money is the root of evil, but money itself is not the enemy. In a different perspective (and this might be different from yours), I think money brings organization to chaos. Do you imagine us doing barter trade in the 21st century? Certainly not.

And for privileged people who do not want to work and just want to sit on their asses the whole day to play video games, if not for the passionate game developers who made your game (who worked night and day to develop that), you wouldn't have a video game in the first place. If you want to eliminate "work" in the society, please enlighten me on how this could be done.

-End of rant-