IT is said that the rich find it hard to serve others.
In 1997, my uncle Jojo gave me a VHS tape from a neighbor, which was entitled 'A Dangerous Life.' It was a 1988 Australian-produced television film about the last years of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship. Of course, even if I was only in high school back then, I was already very familiar with the major characters.But one character, one of President Cory Aquino's political advisers, was played by Noel Trinidad, a famous actor comedian. He was Jaime Ongpin .
He needed to do more. He ventured to do what businessmen rarely do: talk about politics. He began by writing a letter to the editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal in 1981 criticizing the bail-out of crony businesses by the government despite the declining economy. At the height of the powers of the dictatorship, there was little support for what he did, and he was even called 'crazy, stupid and suicidal.
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