What went wrong? I'd be interested to hear the South American perspective on why the continent seems incapable of producing a great power or even long-term growth.
What went wrong...
Ian Green
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Luke Powell
they lost a football match
Ryder Campbell
long story short: agrarian landowning elites who actively sabotage modernization and development efforts for their own interests
Thomas Lopez
Christian Davis
cucked by america, south americans cant do shit without american approval
Adrian Ortiz
that too
Angel Hill
is lula good?
Michael Collins
Why not start a south American union? They can't do shit.
Jeremiah Harris
This.
Nicholas Brown
You need a superpower on the level of germany to bankroll an union and south america doesn't have it
Cameron Ward
Brazil needs more Northern European people. Import 100 million Northern European to Brazil and Brazil would be first world in 10 years.
Chase Sanders
When you have a lot of crime, people generally don't feel it is a good time investment to build a business or anything for that matter. Why do that when your shit is just going to get stolen/destroyed?
Christian Rogers
We need a new Vargas
Matthew White
he's a spineless centrist who is giving a shitton of concessions to the brazilian elites and the politicians they support out of fear of getting couped
Elijah Brooks
>have a business making lots of profit
>try and shutdown or hinder competition that hurt your profits
this is observable everywhere.
>have a dominant power(judeo-christian democracy) making lots of profits
>try and shutdown hinter competition that hurts your profits
this is observable everywhere in the world
they allow you to move up because it's profitable for them, but only to the degree they feel they control the situation and can tear you down. the idea that random shitty countries are suddenly going to explode into power and growth is a delusion. instead of allowing them to have the growth outside powers want to take that for their own profit.
Nathaniel Cook
High crime rates in brazil are such a meme. 99% of brazilians don't approve of it and will take it to their own hands to prevent crime from happening, it's like instead of just a handful of civilians looking out for trouble you have a whole nation acting as a neighborhood patrol at all times. Their numbers are greatly inflated for anti-brazil propaganda pieces
Jason Kelly
This argument forgets one tiny thing: Brazil is a closed economy. That means that foreign trade means very little to the country's income, an irrelevant contributor to the GDP. Which means that external factors cannot really be blamed for any economic woes this shithole runs into.
Cooper Ward
lula is the new vargas. and he makes the same mistake vargas did of trying to collaborate with the elites instead of taking the necessary steps to curtain their power and influence in politics
Henry Ortiz
Eli Allen
Why do they do this?
Justin Baker
what do they even do down there. theres never any news at all from south america cept for something about bolsanario here and there during the trump years
Evan Thompson
No industry
>inb4 Embraer
The demands for planes are actually low especially if you compete with Boeing or Airbus
Nicholas Bailey
self interest, i said it already
Robert Sanchez
no lvla dictadure