92% of the reason why it sucks to be brazilian

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Yes, you're looking at ~92% tax right there. Final price jumped from ~113 dollars (584BRL) to ~220 dollars.

EDIT: A bit of clarification, when buying from abroad there's a flat 60% federal tax if the thing + shipping price surpasses 50 dollars. Then there's a state tax that can vary between 17-25%, which goes on top of the total taxed value. Part of the tax is literally "tax of a tax"

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Dude, Argentina recently updated this from 100% tax to 155%. We literally pay more to the government than the full price. And this is for every purchase, no matter the amount. Be thankful that your shitty politicians are less shitty than ours, you could be worse.

"Be happy about your horrible situation because there are more horrible situations out there" is such a shitty take.

Basically you're saying "unless you're the single most unfortunate person on the planet, maybe even throughout all of human history, you should be happy", which is obviously nonsense.

Be thankful and be happy are different things. "Wow, I'm thankful I'm not that fucked up like the guy over there. I should take steps to totally get away from the path that leads to that place."

It's like looking your future self in a mirror, you still can do something to get away from that bad omen.

Well said, he literally misquoted you to get upset about nothing. Hope things get better for you guys over there.

...I'm sure that dude that just got in charge will sort it out soon shudders

lol, I genuinely don't know if this is advanced sarcasm, good one