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

[DonFerrari]

invetedlotus123 said:

DonFerrari said:

If you want to use more you have to pay more it's quite simple.

Do you think two people, one using 10 Gb and one using 1 Tb should pay the same for the service or they should have the option to pay how much they evaluate worth?

There is unequality, but on the 1% rich it isn't that much different from other countries as you may believe... it's more like a thing the progressist try to sell.

They care more that a portion of the population earns 1M each versus another portion earning 10k than if both earned 5k. They only care about the gap, not about the quality.

It's good to have very rich people employing and moving the economy, don't be jealous on them.

The prices skyrocked in the whole country, don't think only Rio have it.

Everything is centered in Rio because it's the touristic center on the country with enough structure for it (and even so, very poor), Brasilia doesn't have structure and isn't touristic, northeast doesn't have structure and São Paulo isn't touristic.

Cars are very expensive to buy for two reasons, first is that buyers buy them even at those high prices, the second is that the government heavy taxes imported so the "cartel" in Brazil can keep high prices with no concern (besides being heavily taxed as well).

First and foremost, Data Caps are ridiculous because they don`t have no reason to be, mainly in Wired internet. the costs of a person that uses 10 gb or 1tb is pretty much the same for the telecoms, since the maintance costs are pretty much the same for both, what is expensive is to build the infrastructure to serve the clients, after that the costs are the same.

Second, Brazillian super riches are all self made and make a lot of money because they have business that employee many people, but no. Brazillian super riches are most of them somehow milking the government in some way, be it with the 500 billion BRL the federal governemnt pays every year in interest alone or those shady contracts to sell, build or provide services for the government. They are actually spoilling the population with a bizarre tax system that takes money from the poor and middle class and gives it to the super riches. And even, farmers mostly use high tech machinary to produce and those who don`t use modern slave labor in their farms.  Even Eike Batista that was the richest man of Brazil didn`t do nothing but rely on his connections in the government to grab public money and make financial scams with companies that never produced nothing but stock value frenzy.

About Rio, yeah, but Rio is a bad stereotype of Brazil in my opinion. It sells to the world the image of Brazil Party People and that here is a place tourists can make whatever they want like having sex with loads of men and women, even underage, use any kind of drugs they want for a much lower price than at their home countries and than go home like nothing happened. Sao Paulo and Brasilia sells a image of a much more serious country that have high ambitions for the future. And Brasilia is the freaking capital, it`s time to move from the Rio being the center of everything, they aren't capital anymore, and from a cultural point of view it has a lot to offer for tourists, the city is eye candy everyhwere and it`s touristic attractions are great, Itamaraty is a piece of modern art as a building.

A car of 7k or of 1M gets you from place A to B... several cars have similar price to build but have very big MSRP. So no, it isn't ridiculous, don't confound Cost with Value. You value speed and big data cap, so a company that provide you this service should be allowed to charge you for this. If you think the amount of data isn't worth them you don't sign.

There are a lot of self made entrepeneur in Brazil. In fact a lot of the bilionaires not only in Brazil but in the rest of the world aren't from inheritance, so stop thinking that all money is only won through shady business and inheritance.

When presented with the option to stop complaining and opening your business you only complained about how hard it is, but doesn't regard the ones that have balls to do it, you just say they earn their money illicitily. And sure the government is milked with shady contracts and paybacks, but you don't need to do it to suceed, and in fact when you ask for government to intervene on data cap issue that is what you are asking for they to regulate the market and open the doors to corruption.

Brasilia is the freaking capital for bulshit reasons, it doesn't generate almost anything. Housing is a joke with the plano piloto limiting the height you can build and making prices very high for small apartments. The reason Brasilia even have money is because they suck from the rest of the country, flush it to the politicians and friends pockets and that pour into local economy. So instead of bad mouthing Rio because of your prejudice go there see for yourself. No one wants to go to Brasilia for Tourism, even brazilians, so why would you force international to go there only because it's the place you live and think is good?

And about the steriotype of Rio and Brazilians, unfortunately it's mostly deserved. Brazilians like to party all around, are sex oriented and very unpolite. And if the tourists want that they shall go to were it's. Some go to neatherlands, belgium and other countries because of pot being legal, will you complain that they don't go for europe cities that doesn't enable sex and drugs? It's their live, so it doesn't concern you.