There used to be a time, and I am sure that a lot of people have also done this, when I mused that i would have been much more successful if I was not born in the Philippines, but maybe in Europe or in the United States.  People there seemed to be much more successful, and earning better.

This lament, about not being born in the right place or in the right time, might start to become irrelevant, thanks to information technology.  Everywhere in the world, we see now news of Indian, Lebanese, Chinese, South American, or African entrepreneur who made it big.  In now almost every country, there are lists of people who made it into billions.

One of the things that the internet

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