Picture this: A mansion in some provincial town far removed from the trappings of the urban jungle sits on a sprawling property, surrounded at a fair distance by ordinary houses of neighbors where water or electricity is as scarce as a white carabao.

You learn that the palatial residence is owned by the municipal mayor, but out of fear that any seemingly harmless word from you to insinuate that he could not possibly build even a bungalow at his salary as an “honorable” government official, you just keep your peace and grind away as the poor farmer or impoverished fisherman that you are should.

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