I am in Brazil, I earn about 20k USD year as mobile programmer (and for Brazil this is VERY, VERY, VERY high income) Also in Brazil everything (and I DO mean E

I am in Brazil, I earn about 20k USD year as mobile programmer (and for Brazil this is VERY, VERY, VERY high income) Also in Brazil everything (and I DO mean EVERYTHING) is more expensive, Macs usually have a 100% markup compared to US, most of the extra price in taxes. (Brazil has some crazy taxes, for example Videogames have 72% of their final price being taxes, Cachaça, Brazil national cultural beverage, 82% of the final price is taxes...). Here one of the easiest way to get "easy money" is smuggle stuff (usually electronics and clothes, but last year the government had to arrest massive amounts of tomato smugglers), for example you can go to US, buy a bunch of MacBooks, smuggle to Brazil, and charge 50% more of what you paid for them in US, and profit that 50%, and for a Brazillian this still is cheaper than buying a legal one here (that has 100% markup, as I mentioned earlier).