As a Middle class Brazilian who has lived in Australia half his life and grew up in Rio with a vocal Australian dad I may have something to add. The case of th

As a Middle class Brazilian who has lived in Australia half his life and grew up in Rio with a vocal Australian dad I may have something to add. The case of the car in the hole has a socioeconomic explanation. There is huge wealth and education disparity within Brazil and specially Rio. The divide between a blue collar worker fixing the road in Rio and a white collar worker is extreme enough that they are actually from separate cities and I’d suggest different cultures. The road worker would possibly live in a favela with close to no involvement from the government. His only interactions with the “rich”, anyone who doesn’t live in a favela, also called “asphalt people” would be in the form of his superiors who pay him little, treat him like a replaceable resource, don’t provide him with adequate training or tools. There is very little incentive for him to excel at his job or go out of his way to find clever solutions to work problems. There is no career plan here. Once the clock ticks to 5pm he goes back to his universe. The rich can sort it out themselves.