Young people from Brazil's favelas set out to conquer digital world
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#2I have mixed feelings about the article. I was curious to read about a tech boom.
They described a twitch player which earns enough to be afloat. A gaming pro team and an artist selling nft's.
Is it just an add for nft's or a submarine piece for afro games.
Re: Young people from Brazil's favelas set out to conquer digital world
#3When you're at zero, anything happening is a "boom".
I should know, I'm from a country where IT is "booming"... Most of it is tedious boring work that was outsourced by western companies because no one there wants to do it, plus it's cheaper than even creating some automated processes.
Still, that's a pessimistic way to look at it. It's a good thing, and it can grow into something better.
Re: Young people from Brazil's favelas set out to conquer digital world
#4I have mixed feelings about the article. I was curious to read about a tech boom. They described a twitch player which earns enough to be afloat. A gaming pro team and an artist selling nft's. Is it just an add for nft's or a submarine piece for afro games.
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#6How the hell do they run these operations or have this amount of gear safely in a favela?
When I did a full-on tourist experience of Rio, the guides were adamant that we not even go near any favela, as we'd immediately be robbed or worse. My understanding was that the crime in those areas was so astronomically high that nothing even resembling IT infrastructure could exist, as it would immediately be confiscated by the cartels operating there.
I'm glad that's not the case, but I wish the article had more information about how these people were able to operate safely.
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#7people from around the world hungry to pull themselves up from the bottom...
meanwhile in NYC and Oakland, high school students are on "strike" and walking out of class over bogus covid hysteria (aka a legit excuse to combine virtue signalling and goofing off)...apparently we must grovel to their demands as the world owes so much to, and depends so much on, the American teen
fast forward twenty years, who will have risen, who will have fallen
Re: Young people from Brazil's favelas set out to conquer digital world
#8When you're at zero, anything happening is a "boom". I should know, I'm from a country where IT is "booming"... Most of it is tedious boring work that was outsourced by western companies because no one there wants to do it, plus it's cheaper than even creating some automated processes. Still, that's a pessimistic way to look at it. It's a good thing, and it can grow into something better.
Another perspective is that there are people who prefer to do those jobs (instead of say, working in Amazon warehouse) but can't because it's cheaper (and logistically possible) to outsource to another country.
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#9The image of someone sitting in a shack with VR gear on was thought provoking.
Will the adaptation of this technology accelerate quality of life improvements, or will it be an opiate of the masses who would rather exist virtually than in the real world?
Could this remove political desire for rapid change?
Re: Young people from Brazil's favelas set out to conquer digital world
#10How the hell do they run these operations or have this amount of gear safely in a favela? When I did a full-on tourist experience of Rio, the guides were adamant that we not even go near any favela, as we'd immediately be robbed or worse. My understanding was that the crime in those areas was so astronomically high that nothing even resembling IT infrastructure could exist, as it would immediately be confiscated by t…
Because they live there and have relationships, it's very different from a tourist who just looks like a cash machine.