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In a thread about Uber drivers in Brazil scamming, there are people talking about how it's a death sentence to walk into the wrong favela. Are they wrong? That
by mattmanser 8y ago
In a thread about Uber drivers in Brazil scamming, there are people talking about how it's a death sentence to walk into the wrong favela.
Are they wrong? That's not a normal, functioning, society, regardless of GDP.
- passn 8y ago"A death sentence" is exaggerating but just as in any city of 20m people in the developing world there will be some very dangerous areas. Just because an enormous city has some dangerous areas does not mean it is not a "normal, functioning, society". It also doesn't mean it should be equated to the middle east, assumed to be the same as the other 32 countries on the continent.
- vermontdevil 8y agoAnd Rio just had the Summer Olympics.
- Larrikin 8y agoThis is also true in places in the US
- empath75 8y agoHave you been to Baltimore or Detroit?