Motherfukker, do you not get people using more relatable examples to make a point? You really think anywhere in the fukking world someone either making the average salary or less would not be blessed by getting their yearly income pre tax in an instant? Where in the world would an average earner just get their yearly income in their hand and just shrug like it is nothing.
Keep trying to argue a dumb point though.
nah i've been to brazil. a number of times. i've been to favelas.
you clearly don't know what you are talking about. all that "aspirational US stuff" is not global.
degenerates don't think about changing their lives when they get some cash. they think about buying handbags.
not to mention that the societal structures in a dysfunctional milieu for advancement do not exist and/or people do not have access to them and/or people do not know what they offer and how to dig yourself out of poverty. weak institutions. low access to services. low education.
even in advanced countries like england there is no business form-and-foster culture with avenues to do so for people to exit the lower classes and "change their lives". that money is walled off and only accessible to some. even in england you don't have the aspirational talk that you have in america. that's changing but it is not as widespread. no/low venture capital access. no/low advice.
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also the mentality is an issue. if you start talking to those favela chicks about changing their lives they wouldn't know where to start. she's more likely to glaze over and start doing a samba jig and plan on going shopping for fancy clothes in the morning.
taxes are higher than in the US including business taxes too.
and then you have gini effects. cost of living is expensive in brazil and out of line with average income. average years salary in brazil is worth less than the same in the USA. high levels services, high class goods cost around the same as in the west. top end items will normally be more expensive. the gap between the poverty line and the average income in brazil is much bigger.
i'll illustrate this with some numbers from another high gini country with extremely low salaries. in eth the average salary is 55 usd per month, 600 per year. 600 USD will buy you a few nights in the local hilton in addis. brazil is the same but less severe.
then racism. classism. colorism. sexism.
TLDR; rags to "free" in brazil for these people is via sports or fame. not business. because of all these factors.
"go to school" 
