favelas

Specifically, only ~40 of the 750+ favelas in Rio were selected to receive 'Pacifying Police Units' (UPPs).

Maybe the low wage workers live beyond the city boundary, or in favelas that are excluded from the average.

People in the favelas didn't have much, but almost every corrugated-metal/wood/cardboard shack had a TV antenna.

We will end up with 1% owning robots, 9% working directly on robots(designing/fixing), and 90% in favelas eating grass and cardboard bread.

> I can't imagine policing in favelas to be an easy job The police is unequipped, undertrained, underpaid and badly managed.

Anyways, I don't see much happening with favelas, aside from more growth, in the next 5-10 years.

What do you think will happento the favelas in the next 5-10 years?

And which was based on a true story in the Brazilian favelas.

Children in african villages, Brazilian favelas and Norwegian forests understand it intuitively.

Animal products are consumed in luxurious gated communities and in favelas alike.

If you visit one of the major brazilian news website right now, you're going to find a lot of crimes commited by people from favelas.

I don't even see gentrification holding in the 5 (or so) favelas that are home to the largest groups of foreigners.

In Sao Paulo, Southeast region, the culture is not like that, and the favelas and poor neighborhoods have their own criminal factions associated with "organised fan clubs".

The "micro-houses" of today are the favelas of tomorrow.

Do you think it's desirable to get rid of the favelas, or people who live there (some of which moved specifically there) prefer to have this "free society"?

My parents were missionaries and we'd visit very poor areas of town often, and some times we'd go to the famous "favelas" (slums) where people live in improvised lean-to-shack housing.

Favelas/villas in the movies are not works of fiction.

Favelas existed long before electronic computers were invented.