Search for images of “favela”. Tens of millions of Brazilians live in those. The better ones are built with brick, many are just scrap wood and cardboard.
Whats funny… if youre living in poverty youre probably better off in brazil. Atleast they have healthcare as a right.
The only reason the us isnt like brazil today was because the new dealers in the 30’s-50’s actually had the great idea of investing in the common people and had hundreds of billions of dollars poured into communities and all the shanty towns were torn down and affordable housing was built in their place. But since the progressives lost power, the us is quickly tipping away from wealth equality, and shantytowns are making their way back. We’re a single depression from having millions living in favela’s.
Like kings?.. so they have sheverants and no issues with food security and live in castles?
Just because they have electricity hardly makes them kings…
I mean relatively.
Search for images of “favela”. Tens of millions of Brazilians live in those. The better ones are built with brick, many are just scrap wood and cardboard.
And Brazil is one of the “developing” countries.
Whats funny… if youre living in poverty youre probably better off in brazil. Atleast they have healthcare as a right.
The only reason the us isnt like brazil today was because the new dealers in the 30’s-50’s actually had the great idea of investing in the common people and had hundreds of billions of dollars poured into communities and all the shanty towns were torn down and affordable housing was built in their place. But since the progressives lost power, the us is quickly tipping away from wealth equality, and shantytowns are making their way back. We’re a single depression from having millions living in favela’s.