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A comment on Operation Serenata de Amor – An AI project to analyze public spending in Brazil. Parent comment

Re:Operation Serenata de Amor – An AI project to analyze pub... by yelloweyes on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @10:12AM (#16529276)
The average brazilian does not spend 50 BRL on a meal. Why should a public servant be able to? These guys are living like kings when they are mostly blowhards with very few skills other than being able to manipulate poor people into voting for them.
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Re:Operation Serenata de Amor – An AI project to analyze pub... by gomox on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:48PM (#16530475)
Well, a congressman is hardly an average citizen. I don't necessarily disagree with your point but that doesn't necessarily mean that spending 15 USD on lunch is a sign of corruption.

Brazil is in many ways similar to Argentina (where I live) and the average voter doesn't value austerity much. Our current president is the son of one of the richest businessman in the country, and is a millionaire himself.

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