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Valeria Guerra Reiter

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Big retirements. Big deals.

The mockery is solemn. That's why Brazil's HDI is minuscule. We remain under the whip of the struggle of all against all.

INSS queue (Photo: Antônio Cruz / ABr (May 20, 2011))

Retirement in Brazil is synonymous with misery. Most people, after toiling for thirty-five years or more, receive a meager sum as payment. The much-vaunted retirement pension isn't even enough to pay for the medication an individual needs to stay alive...

Think of a minimum wage Everything is deducted, because that's what "lucky" Brazilians receive in retirement, meaning they die enslaved by the pain of social misery. 

The 1885 law regarding the sexagenarian seems fairer than the retirement law established by the CLT (Consolidation of Labor Laws). At least the former gave the slave the opportunity to DIE FREE, while the latter makes the enslaved worker a... poor miserable devil and unimportant in the commercial and social landscape.

This happens to millions of souls adrift, while the "noble" representatives of the three branches of government receive their hefty pensions, which are around 30, 40, 50 thousand reais. An outrage that requires structural reform. 

This form of inequality is very interesting. And undoubtedly, it becomes a sociological topic for field research: in journalism, anthropology, and philosophy. The mockery is solemn. That is why the HDI in Brazil is minuscule. We remain under the whip of the struggle of all against all. 

In Brazil, a well-dressed and verbose "bloodthirsty caste" is very well compensated, and this keeps the people under the yoke of ignorance, selling their lunch to buy dinner. And furthermore, praising (out of cognitive ignorance) this caste of incompetent and idle people bought by the masters of the world, who are at the top of the pyramid.

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* This is an opinion article, the responsibility of the author, and does not reflect the opinion of Brasil 247.