Brian Winter: prediction

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…But is Brazil still looking toward the future? As you know, they built Brasilia in the middle of nowhere. Whatever you think of Brasilia, it was quite an achievement. It’s hard for me to imagine them doing that now. I’ve read that Outback Steakhouse is quite popular in Brazil. You’ve talked about rap music, derivatives of country and Western. Where’s the real future-looking, forward-looking element in Brazil? Where do you see it? I think you see it — and this may sound a bit hokey, Tyler — but you feel it when you talk to people. It’s a country of smiles, of people who sometimes live just incredibly difficult lives. Talking about people who live in the periphery of cities like São Paulo in Brazil who spend five hours a day on a bus commuting in and out of traffic in order to work minimum wage jobs. These people enjoy life, sometimes more than, I would say, often more than the people that I live among in Westchester County just outside New York, who, I look around sometimes on the commuter train, and nobody looks happy. I don’t want to romanticize things. I think that you find unhappy people in Brazil too, but there’s a joy in life that people manage to seize upon, even when the economy is not doing well, perhaps because they’re accustomed to this kind of slow growth situation that we’ve been talking about. Here’s a question from a reader, and I quote, “Does the change in the style of play of Brazil’s national soccer team over the last 20 years (more disciplined and rigorous with fewer players free to create) a result of a change in the national culture or vibe?”…

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