• piccolo
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    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.

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      The history is a bit more complicated than that, Brazil has also suffered from uncontrollably high inflation for most of its history and had to change currencies a dozen times because the old one had become worthless, something that the USA did not have, even at the height of the Great Depression.

      And you have basically infinite money to do a New New Deal, if your government doesn’t jump directly into joining a World War, which worked even more.