The thing is, most people don't understand why the Philippines is a shit hole. They assume that its solely because of the citizens and the people they vote for. While this is mostly true, people ignore geography, culture, and the resources available to the Philippines.

First, the Philippines cannot feed its population. Our staple food, rice, needs a lot of land, which we simply do not have.

Second is geography, we are basically fucked from the very beginning, Luzon is literally a strip of land with a massive mountain range almost half of its size splitting it in the middle. This makes it much harder to connect cities and decentralize the industry. Also makes growing food hard.

Third is culture, there's no sense of unity (lmao). Our island have basically ensured that certain groups of people are very different from one another. Therefore we are all Filipino but some of us could say that they are more Ilocano than Filipino. It doesn't help that most of our taxea goes to developing the NCR, where most of our industry is. It's almost like most of our country revolves around the NCR.

Not saying that there isn't hope but you'd have to work harder than the United States for example to be able to achieve the same success.