lolwut?

At least your data can be downloaded anytime you want

Lack of freedom

Not all of them. I still have childhood friends around, and I'm no youngster anymore (32 years right now). Of course, we don't hang out all the time as during our childhood time, but we regularly meet, knock a few at the bar...
And I've made good friendships as an adult too, not as deep as the childhood ones, but very good friendships nevertheless. Maybe you just were unlucky, because I doubt I'm the only one around here like that.

Marrying someone who dodges responsibility doesn't seem very smart to me

I wouldn't go so far as to call what's done here "market socialism", Brazil is very, very different from China. We are capitalists too -- means of production are not in gov't hands but in private hands instead. And it's true that our gov't is levying far more than their fair share in taxes, for what is being provided in exchange... I remember reading about Belíndia (sorry but apparently there's no English version!). Belíndia was a local economist's parody of what Brazil was (and mostly still is), with taxes and laws from Belgium and standards of living of India. The worst issue is, we end paying up for things we should have for free, for those things are poorly provided by government... public hospitals suck, so we must pay up private hospitals. Public schools sucks, so we must pay for private schools for our kids. Streets and roads are terrible, so gov't hand them over to corporations who charge tolls...
But as I said those things are slowly improving for some time now, IMO. :)

Streisand effect FTW

I have to concede that I'm not an economist so I may be wrong, but the policies are sorta-Keynesian, involving government spending to stimulate the economy. And that spending is mostly social welfare projects, like the Bolsa Familia .

My claim of the wealth disparity improving is not mine at all, you can look yourselft at the link you provided, Gini index has gone from ~0.6 to ~0.55 in one decade, a substantial improvement IMO. Corruption and taxes affects mostly everyone, not just the poor, and despite the cynism and bias of our media, I think we are slowly improving on that front too. :)

Not true at all . And Brazil's middle class has actually expanded during that last decade too.

The current left-wing party in power took over in 2002, take a look again at your own sources using that time frame. Unemployment fell from ~12% to ~5%. Wealth disparity has been steadily decreasing too. Concerning GDP growth rates, I'm forced to agree with you, were somewhat mediocre but managed to avoid recession despite the multiple crisis that blew up since then.

Brazil

+1 Hilarious

"Any sufficiently advanced troll is indistinguishable from a genuine kook."

Homer: What he said is true because its in all caps. Are you gonna argue with caps?
Marge: Why does that make it right?
Homer: He took the time to press the shift key, Marge. I think he knows what he's talking about.

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I bet you have your reasons to jump through all those hoops just to keep that box on winxp... but wouldn't be easier just to install some Linux/BSD distro?

Hey sorry if you can't take a joke, post was intended as a little harmless fun...