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What will it take to break America out of its delusion?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ringo" data-source="post: 956021" data-attributes="member: 1511"><p>Brilliant post, a lot of it resonates with me.</p><p></p><p>I currently still live in Brazil, where I was born and raised, but I've been thinking more and more about moving to the U.S. Most of my family has already emigrated there and it's remarkable what they've managed to build in a couple of years.</p><p></p><p>It's indeed hard to explain but like Anabasis wrote, saying that money grows on trees in America is almost an understatement. The daily grind of bureaucracy, incompetence and corruption that one faces in a third world country is what really gets you. Every interaction with the government seems designed for the worst user experience possible. And that's without mentioning the quality of our public services (transportation, health) and of our <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/world/americas/insiders-account-of-how-graft-fed-brazils-political-crisis.html" target="_blank">dear politicians</a>.</p><p></p><p>Every adult on both sides of my family is either an entrepreneur, self-employed or business owner. The amount of taxes they pay is remarkable and most of all the bureaucracy and the hurdles they have to go through means that you have to either be a masochist or a madman to open up a business here.</p><p></p><p>Just to add to the point, here's two examples. </p><p>Time required to start a company (data from the <a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IC.REG.DURS" target="_blank">World Bank</a>):</p><p>United States: 6 days</p><p>Brazil: 83 days</p><p></p><p>Ease of doing business (<a href="http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IC.BUS.EASE.XQ/countries?order=wbapi_data_value_2015+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-last&sort=asc" target="_blank">World Bank</a>) - the lower the number the better:</p><p>Singapore: 1</p><p>United States: 6</p><p>Brazil: 116</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ringo, post: 956021, member: 1511"] Brilliant post, a lot of it resonates with me. I currently still live in Brazil, where I was born and raised, but I've been thinking more and more about moving to the U.S. Most of my family has already emigrated there and it's remarkable what they've managed to build in a couple of years. It's indeed hard to explain but like Anabasis wrote, saying that money grows on trees in America is almost an understatement. The daily grind of bureaucracy, incompetence and corruption that one faces in a third world country is what really gets you. Every interaction with the government seems designed for the worst user experience possible. And that's without mentioning the quality of our public services (transportation, health) and of our [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/world/americas/insiders-account-of-how-graft-fed-brazils-political-crisis.html]dear politicians[/url]. Every adult on both sides of my family is either an entrepreneur, self-employed or business owner. The amount of taxes they pay is remarkable and most of all the bureaucracy and the hurdles they have to go through means that you have to either be a masochist or a madman to open up a business here. Just to add to the point, here's two examples. Time required to start a company (data from the [url=http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IC.REG.DURS]World Bank[/url]): United States: 6 days Brazil: 83 days Ease of doing business ([url=http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IC.BUS.EASE.XQ/countries?order=wbapi_data_value_2015+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-last&sort=asc]World Bank[/url]) - the lower the number the better: Singapore: 1 United States: 6 Brazil: 116 [/QUOTE]
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