A lot of people asks the same question when they start having a vision of themselves in their future, when they are probably prone to peer pressure, when their parents' expectations influence where they are going, or when achievements occupy their minds as the very essence of being successful. Many people are successful, but not all of them are really happy. In fact, most people who are there are lonely. And what's worst is that they are empty inside. They are successful but there is something missing. I can only offer an explanation by resorting to Theology, and discussing a little about the concept of sin and how it relates to the human condition. The Bible says that all people are sinners. And in Hamartiology, the general concept of sin is something that separates us from our relationship with God, and our relationship with other people. We are lonely because we have broken relationships. When we were a child, our parents probably broken us enough to hate them, and ...

In Psychology, decision making can be regarded as problem solving activity yielding a solution deemed to be optimal or at least satisfactory. It is therefore a process which can be more or less rational or irrational based on explicit or tacit knowledge and beliefs. Tacit knowledge is often used to fill the gaps in complex decision making processes. Usually both of these types of knowledge, explicit and tacit, are used in the decision making process. A major part of decision making involves the analysis of a finite set of alternatives described in terms of evaluative criteria. Then the task might be to rank these alternatives in terms of how attractive they are to the decision maker(s) when all the criteria are considered simultaneously. Solving such a problem is the focus of Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis or MCDA. This area of decision making, although old, has attracted the interest of many researchers and practitioners and is still highly debated as there are many MCDA m...

Labor Economics, and the labor market itself, is a very complex thing. When we analyze economic data relating to jobs and job openings, it will reveal how the labor force is reacting to the available jobs and to the job deficits. When we apply economic knowledge to analyze labor, we are taught that when there is a surplus of labor, the prevailing wage in the market is much smaller compared when there is a shortage of available labor, in which case the prevailing wage tend to be higher. This is the application of the Law of Supply and Demand in Labor Economics. If such a thing exists, countries tend to address this deficit by importing labor from countries with a surplus of labor force to fix the salary, thus averting the possibility of high prevailing wage in the market. Business interests require cutting operating costs as much as possible. In countries with a surplus of labor, some companies whose jobs are not attractive do some measures to make the job appealing. For exampl...

Teaching others about why hierarchy exists is a little difficult to entertain since mostly it is construed as inequality. In other country's culture, this is even considered a norm. Hierarchies necessitates a ruling class. Organizations require different payscales. Man's search for equality has bred injustice in its own sphere, and history was a witness to a lot of bloodshed. Today, social issues remain the same. Everyday we are confronted by the failure of the government to address certain issues. Poverty alleviation should be the number one priority of a developing country. The government must be willing to allow more direct investments in order to create more jobs. Now, more than ever, shopping malls in the Philippines offer a glimpse of the state of the labor market. I, myself, love going to the malls, and when I see hardworking people in my favorite shops, I see issues the establishment failed to resolve. The minimum wage is unsustainable. Some merchants do not pay ...