| Slimebeast said: Wasn't Brazil's economy booming in the years before 2008 (or whenever it was the global financial crysis hit your country)? Or am I rong? I fink you hade a nice 5% GDP yearly growf and wages went up. But the crysis has gone on for much longer in Brazil than it did in the West. |
It was a fake. And the Crisis that have hitted us from 2014 til now destroyed everything we grew in the 5 years prior. Brazil economy is being dismantled. It`s sad because we can actually see the crisis happening, loads of business closing doors, loads of people that got extremely qualified for the future that was promised us are now having a hard time to find a job at a call center, people living in the street are becoming more common than we should be confortable with.
And what is worse is while the wages are becoming lower the prices are increasing in horrenduous rates, and for basic things like food, water and electricity. Going to the supermarket is now a nightmare and many low income families are having to rationalize food so they don`t starve. Housing in any big city is also a nightmare. Renting prices went up so much that, like in my city, that a basic apartment in a middle class neighborhood price for renting is 1000 BRL per month, excluding any other house costs.
In Rio De Janeiro things are even worse, in some neighborhoods there the price for a very basic flat can reach 2 million BRL, it`s cheaper to buy a castle in FRance than an apartment in Leblon or Barra ( Rio neighborhoods).
