It’s not all sad story though, there was also a heartwarming story of a municipal volunteer returning a victim’s money to the family at this link. The best and beast in man brought out by a tragedy.

I agree that was a bit weird — people wanting the show to go on surrounded by bodies. Even if you accept that for poor people tragedy is an ever-present and that some of these people had queued for days, what were they thinking of? That really would have been the ultimate “dog eat dog” image — a happy winner clutching his or her 2 million peso prize and losers carried off to the morgue.

Still, I agree with the fencesitter that is easy for us to talk about the “loss of values” implicit in such get rich quick games, but unless values are rewarded people will lose them. Poor Filipinos work very hard, but for what? These people give, give give every day and what is their return? No wonder they are attracted to the one in a million chance in a game show. That’s better than no chance at all, which is what they have outside the game.

Recently, I encountered a group of laborers in an airport here who were deployed to/bound for Tchad to work for an American company.

These men were under contract for less than a year and were expected to work in a high-risk region but to them it meant having a job and that was good enough.

From what I understood, they were prepared to risk body and soul for less than 20,000 pesos a month (and less than that amount after the usual deductions) but they said to them it was a lot of money because it was sure money, besides, they said, they were insured! When I asked one how much money his family stood to collect in case he died, he said 1,500 dollars. When I asked if they thought 1,500 US$ was high enough, one exclaimed ‘Ay naku, malaking pera na ‘yun!’

Based on Gloria’s precious peso surge against the dollar, I believe the laborer’s life therefore is worth 75,000 pesos give or take a few centavos.

Wowweee’s 1,000,000 peso prize represented grossly the cost of a dozen Filipino lives in Tchad in the event of their death.

If what xxx said was true that a hundred people were still waiting to get into the show grounds despite the 20 dead bodies around, it merely confirms that a poor man’s life has become of little value even to his own kind – not because the Filipino is innately bad but because his moral fiber has been so weakened by so much misery and poverty. The exploitation by the powerful and the greed of the leaders he sees around him have simply numbed him!

You cannot expect to keep an impoverished population’s moral fiber intact when the people they look up to, the leaders they elect, the government that is sworn to protect and care for them put little value on their life.

It not just digusting it is SAD but TRUE

We are milder and tamer…..

Around us ,Footballl stadiums literally break just because the favorite team lost….

I don’t know if that ever happened here in any event…

Re poverty,wealth and luck,diligence

In my new field sales
it always involves luck and twist of faith
ERven if your you are very good you must also be lucky…

I hear that if one works hard he wont even think of luck and get rich schemes……It always involves luck and the saying that if it yours its yours……

and if it is your time it is your time….(to be rich, to die or what not)

A hundred of Filipinos lined up and wanted the show to go on, while nearby were more than 20 dead bodies.

They were robbed of any feelings or guilt, blinded by the P1 million prize.