It's extremely frustrating being a technology lover in Brazil.

[Swordmasterman]

invetedlotus123 said:

Swordmasterman said:
A lot of countries have their high tax, and even some states of the USA. The US$ being up YOY isn't just for 1 country, it is a worldwide problem. And what is expected for a technology lover is to be among the early adopters, they are supposed to have money.

For a country like Brazil with 200+ Millions of people, very poor regions and very rich ones, having a PIB Per Capita of over 29.000R$ (over 14.500US$ at last year's exchange rate) per citzen isn't a low number.

It becomes low because here there's a huge unequally division of riches. There are a part of the population that is obscenely rich and a huge amount that is extremely poor and the middle class. They say here that 1% of the population controls around 30% of all the money. 

I don't know the source of your numbers. But the region of the country that has over 50-53% of the money is also the region with over 50% of the population. The difference is bigger in the other regions, but in the reacher ones pretty much everyone  is able to purchase tech just like other European countries. The difference is that the tax in unnecessary products, such as Tech, is very heavy, over 100% in some cases. Plus the US$ being over 100% up last year plus the profit margin of the stores. 

The tax is different in each state and city. 

Tech is expensive because isn't made on the country. And even if it were made here, they would need to bring everyone in order to lower the price. In the actual country they just finish the product here, but all the other things like Cards and the core of the tech is imported. 

You know that we have a region where  isn't any tax on productions, don't you ?  Even so, isn't enought if companies don't want to make their products here.