Attorney Abellon is back...

Back with keyboard. I promised a lengthier explanation why this is stealing from the Filipinos, and not the foreigners. Here it goes.

Assume the entire market of consumers consist of 4 people. Name them Person1 - Person4. that earn each 250p per day.
The total amount of goods on the market is 8 apples.
They will end up buying 2 apples each at 125p a piece.
If Person2 is a corrupt attorney, that extort 1000p from a foreigner, because he spent many years in school and find him self more worthy than the other Persons, he has then gained an unfair competition position as he now got 1250p and the other still got only 250p.
If the amount of good isn't changed, the 8 apples will now go at 250p a piece and Person2 will get 5 of them, and the others 1 each.

Now, change Person1 - Person4 with the entire Filipino population and the apples with the total goods available to consumers, and you will see that the corrupt will take a bigger piece of the cake, on the expense of the other Filipinos, because they gain unfair competition over the others.
It should be fairly easy to see that corruption doesn't add to the market, so there will be no more goods to consume, just because they extort money from someone.

On the other hand, if the attorney was a fair player and did some kind of business, e.g. put up business and manufacture something, he will also (hopefully) earn more money, but will at the same time add to the total consumable goods, and hence gain a fair competition position rather than an unfair.

But, most people I met in the Philippines they don't see this relation. That more money means you can buy more things, but at the same time means someone else can buy less, as there are limited supply of everything.

 

i like a debate, if many join in we can have a mas.de bate
cheers

 

Like shootin fish in a barrel.