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"Emerging market" is a euphemism for "developing country" which is a euphemism for "third world" Brazil is technically part of the 3rd world. I enjoy visiting
by forensic 15y ago
"Emerging market" is a euphemism for "developing country" which is a euphemism for "third world"
Brazil is technically part of the 3rd world.
I enjoy visiting poor countries as much as the next guy. But I don't want to raise my kids there or work there for very long. (Maybe as an adventure in my early 20s)
Like every other normal human, including Brazilians, I want to have a good life. As a highly educated, highly intelligent person born and raised in the 1st world, why should I sacrifice all the comforts and enjoyments of civilization that my ancestors worked so hard for to please some bored blogger?
Would Brazilians sacrifice for me? No. They don't give a fuck about me, and neither does this blogger lady. So I am unconvinced by all the appeals that I go work some unprofitable job in some shithole country because Silicon Valley isn't "exciting" enough.
- stcredzero 15y ago"Emerging market" is a euphemism for "developing country" which is a euphemism for "third world" Yes, but "is a euphemism for" isn't the same as just plain "is." For example, not everything that's a "convenience" is a toilet. That's a huge logical fallacy there. You use the exact same fallacy twice in an example of fallacious overreaching to an extent which is fortunately rare here. As a highly educated, highly intelligent person born and raised in the 1st world, why should I sacrifice all the comforts and enjoyments of civilization that my ancestors worked so hard for to please some bored blogger? You definitely shouldn't do it to please some bored blogger. Are you implying that's the only reason why anyone, ever would want to do it? You're probably not the one to go. No one's going to argue that. It would be pointless to argue that. In fact, I don't see a point to staking out the position in the first place. It's also quite clear that there are people out there in the 1st world who would want to go.
- forensic 15y agoI'm responding to the moral outrage of the original post about how SV is too concerned with making money and running businesses, and not concerned enough about the author's pet charities. I'm not against charity work -- I'm against other people telling me to do charity work.
- brown9-2 15y agoIn 2010 Brazil had the world's 7th largest nominal GDP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...