Are we better off under Marcos or under Duterte?
LET’S be objective and ditch rarefied analyses and ideological biases. At the end of the day, what matters for citizens is whether the state and its leader deliver what’s most important to them — their daily needs for food and other necessities of modern life, and, of course, their prices.
This is the situation even in the most advanced nations on Earth: Americans junked the Democrats’ blah-blahs about saving democracy, and voted for the foul-mouthed Donald Trump, who claimed the past administration “wrecked” the economy, according to exit polls.
Despite the official reports of inflation in September 2024 that the US had a three-year low of 2.4 percent (ours is 1.9 percent), 82 percent of voters felt, according to the Pew Research Center, that the Democrat administration had not done enough to bring down the cost of goods.
In our case, the June 2024 poll of PulseAsia reported that a huge 72 percent of respondents viewed high prices as their most pressing concern.
I used an artificial intelligence app to research for me the average prices of a set of common commodities and services in the first two years of the Duterte and the Marcos Jr. administrations. Among the capabilities of AI is that it can research the internet and read articles there in milliseconds.
What would probably take months to read everything on a particular topic, it takes seconds for AI to read and summarize for the user. For this particular topic I assigned, AI scoured official government data as well as individual reports by news agencies for the first two-year periods under the two administrations.
The rate of increase of the average prices of a set of commodities in the two periods I asked AI to research on rose from a low of 22 percent to a high of 55 percent, for an average of 44 percent.
There wasn’t a single commodity or service that didn’t increase its prices. Following is the AI report:
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Are we better off under Marcos or under Duterte?
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