The economy is designed to benefit the Oligarch landed elites, those generations of workers see them as benefactors, these is how the feudal system works and the way the landed gentry perpetuate their land holdings. What we need is
a genuine land reform, not the current one with full of loopholes were the beneficiary peasant was forced to sell their newly acquired land back to their former owner with a tidy sum. And then develop the land into realty and commercial district earning billions instead of using it productively, producing food to feed the masses instead of imports. (mostly smuggling and price gouging depriving the gov't of needed revenue)
Another solution is to open up the economy (except for land, there should be a Land Usage Act that control the unwanted real estate development and protect agricultural land ) for foreign competition instead of the current 60/40 rule. In this way it will make the Philippine attractive to investors as we are situated in a prime real estate in the region. We can out compete the Singaporean, the Thai, the Indonesian and definitely with Cambodia with our fluency of the English language, heck We can beat the Indians in outsourcing without using the head shake....lol and of course our beautiful beaches and women (sound appropriate when use together....lol) , I'm bias but I think in terms of beauty the Filipina hold that distinction both in facial feature, complexion and the curves of the female body.
(ample front and the back bumpers unlike the other ASEAN women in the region).