Failed Kuyanomics: Why MCGI Cares Will Not Survive Irrelevance
- Rosa Rosal
- May 13
- 4 min read
Updated: Jun 5
Moderates from the other Reddit and even from our own continue to peddle a cautious, defeatist hypothesis that MCGI Cares will not collapse but merely shrink quietly into irrelevance, like a cooling dwarf star.
This view is not only incorrect, it is dangerous.
It disarms the movement for direct action, it resigns abuse survivors to passive endurance, and it legitimizes a culture of strategic surrender. By denying the visible signs of collapse, it delays cult recovery and invites opportunism from parasitic elements like MCGB and Broccoli TV, and micro-cults seeking to monetize disenchantment without challenging the system that created it.
This is a disservice to those still trapped. Members who remain exploited, doubly burdened as they carry the weight abandoned by earlier exiters.
The clearest path to meaningful recovery is through direct action, and that begins with naming the condition--That MCGI Cares Ground Zero is possible. That a post-MCGI world is emerging before our eyes.
A Short History of Rapid Rise and Overreach
Bro. Eli Soriano built a religious empire with astonishing speed. Through aggressive leveraging, high-risk loans, and an oppressive abuloyan system, he compressed within two decades what other sects, like INC, took nearly a century to achieve in terms of reach.
But unlike INC, which grew by acquiring land and hard assets, Soriano’s expansion was rooted in ephemeral capital like airtime, satellites, digital platforms.
Today, most of those investments are obsolete or deactivated. They were never designed to last. Worse, members paid for them with blood, sweat, and personal savings and properties—yet they now yield no returns.
Meanwhile, INC’s early land acquisitions now tripled to quadrupled in prices generating juicy passive income through rentals, collateral borrowing, and institutional equity. MCGI, in contrast, overexposed itself to capital overreach and financial bubble.
When Soriano passed, he left a brittle empire bloated with debt and dependent on a captive economy. The INC model cannot be replicated anymore as it’s too late.
The Unsustainability of Kuyanomics
Enter Kuya Daniel Razon, not as a reformer, but as a consolidator of decay. He did not dismantle the mechanisms of overreach. He doubled down.
His brainchild, KAPI (Kabalikat sa Pamamahayag International), is the foundation of what we now call Kuyanomics. A project-based extortion system that taxes the rich and middle-class brethren with recurring contributions, on top of their traditional abuloy.
Kuyanomics is not a financial solution. It’s a religious ponzi scheme. While the congregation wallows in poverty, Kuyanomics flaunts wealth through vanity projects and luxury displays.
Its structural design mirrors a mafia's caporegime system. KNPs (Katulong ng Pangangasiwa) act like collectors, squeezing out overseas brethren and taking cuts for themselves of the collected “tribute.” It is a gangster-like economy veiled in religious language.
Debt, Decay, and the Captive Economy’s Imminent Collapse
Due to overleveraged expansion, MCGI Care's fall will not be slow. It will be catastrophic. Many of its properties remain likely unpaid, held not in the name of the Church but under personal titles tied to Bro Eli Soriano, his grandchildren, and even his lover. These are liabilities, not assets.
Meanwhile, the cult's businesses are wholly dependent on a captive economy. They sell to their own, they perform for their own, and their digital footprint is artificially inflated by members gaming algorithms to simulate virality.
Without this captive base, platforms like Wish FM, UNTV, and its concert productions lose relevance. They have no cultural footprint beyond the internal bubble. They were never built to survive a competitive open market—much less to thrive under scrutiny. In fact, many of their products are illegal and banned by regulatory bodies like the FDA.
The Brazil Mirage and the End of Foreign Theater
The much-hyped foreign expansion particularly in Brazil has quietly collapsed. Testimonies suggest it was largely theatrical, sustained by paid proxy actors and stage-played baptisms. It was less a ministry, more a spectacle.
Kuya has since abandoned the foreign front. The strategic withdrawal of the Foreign Ministry was born of necessity. Without a sustainable global network, international assets become dead weight—likely debt-serviced and increasingly prone to repossession.
The Kuya Paradox: Not a Shepherd, But a Destroyer
Where Bro. Eli sustained MCGI through his greater reach and charisma, Kuya Daniel has none of the qualities that can maintain the cult’s adventurous organizational equilibrium and financial brinkmanship. He is not a redeemer of souls. He is the destroyer of them! He is an extractor of capital.
Kuyanomics engineered the very donation fatigue and spiritual disillusionment that now drive the mass exodus. Over 90% of exiters cite financial exploitation and perceived hypocrisy as their reason for leaving.
MCGI Cares, once a movement, is now a machine of extraction. Its institutional design incentivizes loyalty through guilt, sustains hierarchy through coercion, and survives only through remittances from members who remain emotionally or economically tethered.
But no system can survive when its inputs collapse.
Towards Inevitable Implosion
MCGI Cares is a cult built on borrowed time. It is exposed to debt, bloated by mansions and resorts, dependent on captive support, and led by a narcissist who cannot withstand the erosion of praise and the evaporation of income.
This is not a slow fade into irrelevance. This is a house of cards mid-collapse.
Each lost member is not merely a number, it is a fracture in the system.
Each doubter is a potential trigger.
And each act of dissent is a step closer to the inevitable: economic default, organizational implosion, and moral bankruptcy.
Post-MCGI is not a dream. It is the reality unfolding before our eyes.
Let no one tell you otherwise.
Disclaimer:This article is a commentary intended for educational and critical discussion. It offers a reflective critique on religious excesses, organizational behavior, and financial practices within high-control groups. Any references to individuals, institutions, or events are part of a broader analysis and should not be interpreted as personal attacks. This content does not aim to incite hatred or violence and remains within the bounds of protected free speech and fair commentary.
