However, the seemingly outnumbered status of upper class citizens does not limit their access to social rewards. In fact, they are the ones who receive greater rewards that cause inequality in the distribution of resources. Their access to property and monetary rewards are definitely unequal to an ordinary factory worker since these people are the sources of capital in any form of industry. The Philippines, being a giving capitalists country solely depends on capitalists who wish to invest in the country, thus giving capitalists every right to have greater access to social rewards. Why? Because without these capitalists, Philippine economy would drop like a ball of solid iron dropped at the center of Pacific Ocean. There is no way the government would neglect these upper class capitalists, so it would not really matter if there is unequal distribution of wealth. This is what communist groups are whining about for the utter unfairness of this set-up puts the worker, the one who toils day in and day out, in a 50/50 situation. Unlike factory workers, capitalists could not easily be fired.
Prestige and influence is directly proportional to the amount of money that a certain person acquires. Therefore, upper class people get a lot of these. They are usually labeled the elites who are often seen cloth in suits priced not less than 5,000 pesos. They send their kids in prestigious schools to educate them on how it is to be an elitist. They socialize and mingle with celebrities and political figures giving them better weight on the judgment of politicos even though they are not different to an ordinary voter. They get a lot of prestige, and oftentimes this becomes a source of bias, prejudice and all sorts of status abuse. But judgments should not be passed that easily to upper class people because some of them have worked hard to get to the top. This is the good thing about living in this country.