I'm fucking pissed.
Let me give you the full story:
The town I live in is a small town in the south of Brazil, with about 60.000 inhabitants total. The public library is in shambles, with most of the books falling apart and missing page. However, we fortunately had one good independent bookstore that managed to have a good selection of well kept books, be it fiction or non-fiction. That bookstore managed to stay there for 13 years, selling books and even ordering them for people if they didn't have it on the store.
Well, guess what? Out of nowhere, it was closed this week, with a note thanking the support of the community in these past years.
I though that sudden closing was strange and decided to look more into the matter and found out that the reason was because of high rent, with the building owner asking about 10.000 reais (3.194 dollars) each month, which is a fucking lot for a relatively small store. Guess what? A friend of mine has a much bigger store in the same street and he only pays 4.000 reais (1.277 dollars) of rent each month. In the same fucking building of the bookstore, a cellphone accessories store opened up this year and they obviously aren't making and paying 10.000 reais each month.
I'm guessin some big store owners wants to use the same place that the bookstore was in to make their own store, so they asked the landowner to overcharge them and run them out of business, it wouldn't be the firs time it happened.
Now, our city has literally zero ways to get books apart from an abandoned library and the Internet.
I'm fucking pissed
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Yeah, this sort of thing happens a lot. You could:
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obviously this is the government's fault, we need less regulations and give landlords more freedom
hmm
maybe its because brazil is a neoliberal shithole
here is a public library in my country
It's gonna get even worse here since the Temer govt' is planning on cutting the public universities. Gotta keep the plebeians stupid!
So the private book store gave you no notice it was closing and no notice that it moved somewhere?
I'd think the owner would want to just move to a cheaper location than close his business?
brazil never gave a shit about public institutions that couldn't land you an easy job by licking the balls of the mayor. i remember a study published somewhere (i wish i could find a link) that researched newspaper articles and showed that slum-dwellers had been protesting for the building of schools in their communities since the days of the late Empire, and many of those places haven't had any schools built until ten, fifteen years ago.
we are 130 years overdue for a revolution, my friend :(
I mean notice beforehand like a clearance sale before closing at the location.
the whole world is going very fast in that direction dude, don't count your blessings and fight for what you still have :(