I was born in Brazil and lived there for a while. Can tell you that the amount of shenanigans that go around grounding is just crazy. For example I lived in an

I was born in Brazil and lived there for a while. Can tell you that the amount of shenanigans that go around grounding is just crazy. For example I lived in an apartment where the shower literally refused to work until I had to tinker with it and disable its grounding. Now you are wondering, why I disabled the grounding of a dangerous electric shower? Well, it is no less dangerous than the rest of the whole stupid building, that although it is extremely against the building code to do so, they literally tied the "neutral" wire to the "ground" wire in the whole building. Meaning that all grounded power sockets, were actually not grounded at all and instead had the ground pin connected to the neutral pin. Yes, it is bad and dangerous as it sounds, got shocked multiple times at that apartment and had appliances short circuit. But did complaining to authorities did anything to fix it? Nope. They don't care until someone die, then they find some random guy not connected to politics to sue. See lastest supreme court decisions, that freed all corrupt construction company people that have connections to the party in power. Brazil has deep, chronic issues, with corruption and the construction industry, you literally can't build anything big without corruption, it is just silly. My father was a civil engineer and the stories I heard from his friends were just crazy balls, not only the corruption people know about, but lots that people don't. Did you knew that São Paulo has some tunnels with MISSING SUPPORTS because people fucked up and let cement leak from the machinery into the river, and the government decision to fix the situation was just tell engineers to not put some safeish percentage of supports on their section and not tell other engineers about it so nobody know what supports are missing? This way the government avoided buying more cement after the last batch ended in the river.