5 October 2026
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When Power Becomes Profit
EDITORIAL

When Power Becomes Profit

Bureaucrat capitalism has turned Philippine governance into a marketplace, where officials moonlight as entrepreneurs and public office doubles as private enterprise: from national cronyism to Bicol's quarry-owning politicians. Ateneans must reject complacency and reclaim public service from the logic of profit, both on campus and beyond it.

ThePILLARS Publication12 August 2026

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