The Stupidity Of Sending OFWs To Dangerous Countries Like Kuwait

I remembered writing some things about the OFW phenomenon and lately -- I addressed the question of whether or not OFWs have taken over Kuwait. Now it's time to address the stupidity of sending OFWs to obviously dangerous places. While I do admit that there are indeed OFWs that had their misfortunes coming (ex. Doing criminal acts) but some of them are indeed victims of abuse. The current news regarding Kuwait should be a red alert of how faulty the OFW system is.

It's crazy how OFW mishaps happen a lot in many places where it's known employers can be so abusive yet why are OFWs get deployed there? Did the agencies or even the government think that OFW means Overseas Filipino Warrior when it means Overseas Filipino WORKER? The recent example of the Kuwait-OFW mishap really shows that the OFW program ends up as an exploitation program. Yes, there are remittances but most of the beneficiaries are in the higher-ups such as greedy politicians and their oligarch friends at the cost of the Filipino worker.

The issue of Filipinos getting abused by their employers in countries like Kuwait is not a joke. It's been known for years to be real yet OFWs still keep getting sent to those countries. This really shows where the whole protectionist program drives Filipinos looking for jobs to end up at. The limited job opportunities combined with the greed of politicians who have oligarch allies has caused these mishaps. Desperate Filipinos who look for jobs will take any job no matter how dangerous the place is. It's sort of like a rock and a hard place -- employed but one is in a dangerous region or starving to death because there's hardly any jobs in the Philippines.

Besides, if any deployment ban of Filipinos going to such places where abuse of foreign workers is common practice then well and good. I don't want to keep hearing incidents of honest-to-goodness OFWs who are always getting beaten up by their employers. Besides, all these mishaps should have been a call to open up the economy yet the greedy politician-oligarchy alliance (or even the supposed human rights groups) could care less -- they don't care about what happens to Filipinos as long as they stay relevant and get some easy money.