Philippine stampede reflects poverty

It's just a game show giving away prizes (money, car, house and lot) for their first anniversary but more than 70 people were killed in the stampede trying to get inside stadium in the hopes of their names would be called and they might win something.

The stampede just shows how poor we Filipinos are

To the poverty-stricken, such tempting prizes are worth dying for. To many of them, the program is the only way to get hold of some money that, perhaps, could finally set them free from the clutches of poverty.

I don't watch the said show (I watch the rival one..cos it's much better..hehe) but sometimes I catch glimpses of it when channel surfing. The show has many poor contestants and for many it's a way for them to get meager sum of money to augment and alleviate their poverty needs.

The solution would for people to have jobs. Game shows and the prizes won will only bring relief for time being. In the end money will run out and it's back to scraping for food and joining contests instead of getting a job or looking for one. Goverment should provide jobs to the many unemployed.