REMOTE FUTURES.

Living in Brazil, it never sits easy knowing that you're in a country where people are poorer than their first world counterparts, yet they invariably pay more for worse. But when, as happened today, someone who doesn't have much money gives you a remote-controlled car for your little boy that she could ill afford, and it's totally dead from the get-go, plus there's no way of taking it back because you know she will have bought it from the kind of shop where they don't do receipts, it's more than just difficult, it's heartbreaking. Heartbreaking and then, after a while, maddening. I've always been a bit of a bleeding heart liberal, but it's only since coming to Brazil that I've really come to despise global capitalism for the way it's designed to petrify the structures of inequality and foreclose the futures of those huddled masses made invisible by poverty or distance.