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I am almost afraid to ask, but what do you mean by "more efficiently" and "with a positive attitude"? I confess what I imagine out of those frases is roughly:
by crpatino 11y ago
I am almost afraid to ask, but what do you mean by "more efficiently" and "with a positive attitude"?
I confess what I imagine out of those frases is roughly: "for less money/with no strings attached" and "in blissful ignorance of the economic violence that entails".
- personlurking 11y agoI don't pretend to know the commentor's intentions but, for reference, there's something in Brazil called the Stray dog/Mongrel complex which was thought up by a famous Brazilian writer, and which may explain it for you. Of his phrase, this writer said it's “the inferiority with which the Brazilian positions himself, voluntarily, in front of the rest of the world”. From a NYT piece written by author Larry Rohter in 2004: "Writing in the 1950's, the playwright Nelson Rodrigues saw his countrymen as afflicted with a sense of inferiority, and he coined a phrase that Brazilians now use to describe it: "the mongrel complex." Brazil has always aspired to be taken seriously as a world power by the heavyweights, and so it pains Brazilians that world leaders could confuse their country with Bolivia, as Ronald Reagan once did, or dismiss a nation so large -- it has 180 million people -- as "not a serious country," as Charles de Gaulle did."
- forinti 11y agoI meant that in the US you could do this through an app and never even have to meet the people doing your chores. In a developing nation, you would have to interview this person and you would definitely have to oversee their work.
- xkcd-sucks 11y agoI took it as "they'd better be grateful to have this shitty service industry job, or else"