Peso Weekly, Manila (2025)

14/08/2025

Most Filipinos think the only thing separating the middle class from the wealthy is the size of their paycheck. The truth is, it starts with how they think about money, risk, and opportunity. While the middle class often focuses on security, the wealthy focus on growth. While one side waits for perfect timing, the other takes small, calculated steps and learns along the way. The gap is not just about resources but perspective. Treating money as a tool, not just a reward. Seeing risk as a ladder, not a trap. Building income streams instead of relying on a single paycheck. If you want to close the gap, start by changing the way you see money, time, and opportunity. Wealth begins in the mind before it shows up in your bank account.📩 PesoWeekly shows you how for free.Link in Bio

14/08/2025

From SM Makati to the Middle East, New York, and beyond. Bench is the ultimate Filipino retail success story. Ben Chan proved you don’t need a trust fund to build an empire. You need vision, guts, and the will to adapt when the world changes.
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14/08/2025

“Entry level.”
Salary: ₱16,000/month.
Requirements: 2+ years experience, bachelor’s degree, mastery of 5 different software, willingness to work weekends and holidays.
Make it make sense.We dug into why so many “starter” jobs in the Philippines are anything but entry level — and here’s what we found:
The hard truths:
Skills gap: Schools teach theory, not workplace-ready skills.
Broken OJT: Most internships give coffee-making skills, not real training.
Training avoidance: Companies don’t want to spend time and money teaching you.
Oversupply of graduates: Too many degree-holders, not enough quality jobs.
Pay mismatch: You demand the moon but pay like it’s minimum wage.
The result?
Fresh grads get trapped in a cycle of unpaid internships, low-paying “starter” roles, or unrelated jobs just to “gain experience.” By the time they qualify, they’ve lost years of potential earnings.
Reality check for jobseekers:
Don’t be average. Give your best. Be the best in your career.
Cultivate the habit of doing quality work — it’s the fastest way to open doors and escape the system that undervalues you.
Stop blending in. Start standing out.
💬 Your turn:
What’s the weirdest “entry-level” job requirement you’ve ever seen?
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14/08/2025

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14/08/2025

🇹🇼 From rice fields to the world’s tech capital in one lifetime.
In the 1950s, Taiwan was poorer than the Philippines. GDP per capita? Just $140. Literacy rate? Barely half the population could read. Poverty? Above 40%.
But Taiwan didn’t just recover from war. They rewrote their future.
1950s: Radical land reform turned tenant farmers into landowners, boosting rural income and wiping out hunger.
1960s: They stopped protecting industries and started selling to the world building ports, highways, and export zones.
1970s–80s: They poured 20%+ of the national budget into education, built massive infrastructure, and invested in science parks.
1980s–2000s: They founded TSMC, now the world’s largest chipmaker, and spent nearly 4% of GDP on research and innovation.
2020s: Taiwan is in the Top 20 for global innovation, exports over $200B in high-tech goods, and has a poverty rate of just 2.6%. GDP per capita? $32,756.
Meanwhile, the Philippines had a higher GDP per capita than Taiwan in the 1950s.
Today, Taiwan’s economy is 8x richer per person.
We spend 0.32% of GDP on R&D. They spend 3.96%.
They’re in the Top 20 for innovation. We’re 53rd.
The difference? Taiwan thought 50 years ahead. We keep thinking in 6-year cycles.
If we want Taiwan’s results, we need real reforms, relentless investment in people, and leaders planning for the next generation not the next headline.
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13/08/2025

Most people think wealth starts with a higher paycheck, a business idea, or a lucky break. But for the rich, it starts in the mind. The difference isn’t just what they do with their money, but what they believe about it. While many Filipinos grow up thinking money is always scarce or that investing is just gambling, wealthy people see money as a tool, not a trap. They know that calculated risks, continuous learning, and systems that work without them are what truly build wealth.
The danger is in holding on to beliefs that quietly cap your potential. When you believe only the lucky get rich, you stop taking action. When you think busyness equals success, you never step back to build smarter ways to earn. If you want to break your financial ceiling, start with your mindset. Because the moment your beliefs change, your opportunities multiply.

13/08/2025

🚗 From fear to freedom,how Grab rewrote Southeast Asia’s transport story. In 2012, Anthony Tan and Tan Hooi Ling launched a tiny app called MyTeksi to make taxis safer for women in Malaysia. They had no big investors, no super-team just a mission and relentless hustle. They pitched drivers one by one, battled skepticism, and slowly built trust. Within years, Grab was in multiple countries, offering not just rides but food delivery, digital wallets, and even loans. Today, it’s Southeast Asia’s super-appserving 32 million users and helping thousands of small businesses grow.
The takeaway? Start with purpose. Dream big. Keep going when no one believes you yet.
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13/08/2025

You think you want to be rich but what you really want is to be free. Free to wake up without an alarm. Free to say no without fear. Free to spend your time on things and people that matter. Money is just the tool. Freedom is the target. But you won’t get there if you spend everything on things you don’t need instead of building savings and investments. It’s okay to enjoy life, but it has to be balanced. Rich is a number. Freedom is a feeling. Chase the feeling, not just the figure. Share this if it hit you harder than expected.

13/08/2025

We can’t keep chasing short-term applause while ignoring the future. If we want real change in this country, we need to face the hard questions: Why do we pour energy into pageants, yet make it so hard for innovators to thrive here? We’ve been too selfish, too focused on the “now” to think about the next 20, 30 years.It doesn’t take billions to fix this — it takes courage, priority, and real implementation. Let’s make it easier for problem-solvers to operate in the Philippines. Let’s put them in the spotlight, celebrate them in our schools, and give them the same national pride we give to our beauty queens. Because the world will remember us not for the crowns we wore, but for the problems we solved.Stop Sending Beauty Queens — Start Sending Problem-Solvers

We’ve won Miss Universe 4 times. We’ve never won a Nobel Prize in science. Guess which one we keep funding.Every year, the Philippines sends multiple beauty queens to the world stage from Miss Universe to Junior Idol World — complete with coaches, glam teams, and national hype. But when was the last time you saw the same level of support for a Filipino inventor, scientist, or entrepreneur representing us abroad? This is not about ending pageants. Beauty queens inspire us — but inspiration alone doesn’t fix flooding, hunger, or poverty. The point is balance. Other countries like South Korea and Singapore prove you can export both beauty and brains.

The truth? We spend less than 0.3% of GDP on research and development. We have only 188 researchers per million people. Many of our brightest leave because other countries give them what we don’t: funding, respect, and opportunities.It’s time to think long-term. Let’s make it easier for innovators to operate here. Let’s celebrate them in our schools, promote them in the media, and prioritize them in our policies. Because crowns win applause for a night — but innovations change lives for generations.

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12/08/2025

They told you you’re broke because you’re lazy. That’s the lie that keeps the system running. You work harder than ever — but rent, groceries, and bills eat your paycheck before you can even think about saving. Wages crawl while prices sprint. Taxes take more from you than they do from billionaires. And the things our parents bought with one income? Now they feel like luxuries. Meanwhile, the rich play a completely different game. They earn through investments taxed less than your salary. Their money grows while they sleep. They get access to deals, rates, and opportunities you’ll never see on a billboard. The cruelest part? They’ve convinced us to blame ourselves. “You’re just bad with money.” “You need to budget better.” That shame keeps us quiet — and keeps them in control.
The truth: you didn’t create this system. But you can learn it, hack it, and with enough of us, change it. Because the first step to beating the game is seeing that it’s rigged.
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12/08/2025

Harvard might have been the dream but for Dr. Ea Kristine Clarisse Tulin-Escueta, Leyte was always home.
At just 29, Ea completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she trained under world-leading scientists to develop lab-made antibodies with potential applications in cancer diagnostics, neuroscience, and infectious disease treatment.
She could have stayed abroad. Instead, she returned to Visayas State University (VSU) where she graduated magna cm laude and valedictorian to help build a stronger research culture in Eastern Visayas. She’s the first “Proud Viscan” to complete a Harvard research fellowship and is now part of VSU’s Department of Biotechnology as the university prepares to open its own College of Medicine.
Her vision? A “Science Island” in Leyte where government, industry, and academia work together on research that directly benefits local communities. She plans to tackle pressing health challenges like snake bites, rabies, and schistosomiasis, all while mentoring the next generation of Filipino scientists.
For Ea, returning home isn’t just a career move it’s a mission to bridge Philippine science to the world and ensure that discoveries are rooted in service to the people.
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12/08/2025

From a small-town classroom to the cosmos.In 2002, Dr. Josette Talamera Biyo, a humble science teacher from Iloilo made history. She became the first Asian to win the Intel Excellence in Teaching Award at the world’s biggest high school science fair.The award wasn’t just a trophy. It was recognition from over 4,000 nominees worldwide that her innovative teaching could turn under-resourced classrooms into world-class laboratories.MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory honored her by naming a minor planet after her — Planet 13241 Biyo, now quietly orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. But her story didn’t stop in the stars. She went on to lead the Philippine Science High School System, expanding scholarships for underprivileged youth, training teachers nationwide, and producing science champions who would represent the Philippines globally. And yet… many Filipinos have never heard her name. Her story is better known in international science circles than in our own backyard.
Her legacy is a powerful reminder:
🌱 Talent is everywhere, but opportunity isn’t.
💡 You don’t need perfect conditions to create excellence.
🚀 Even if your own country overlooks you, the world might just put your name in the stars.
Dr. Josette Biyo proves that one teacher can change the trajectory of thousands of lives — and still stay grounded enough to keep showing up in the classroom.
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