today someone at work showed me our company's costs in LATAM.

>>66587832
In order to have a dynamic economy, you have to defeat all the vested interests. Sometimes, the workers themselves are a vested interest

>>66587832
high taxes (some taxes being fucking mental) + unions running this country = we disappeared from every market we were present

>>66587832
If I have to send some IT device to Brazil I have to pay almost double the value of the device just in fucking import taxes.

Why are you so difficult and expensive?

>>66588417
Why would you have to pay? they don't have care plans in Spain?

>>66588577
We send them from the UK. The most expensive countries to introduce IT devices are Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, in that order.

>>66588417
Bien, sube

>>66588667
No, I mean that should be either covered in warranty or as part of an extended care plan, why would you use any device that's such an expense to repair? I take ot we are talking computers/servers, maybe printers here. Mexico does a lot of service/repair for the US (geographical advantage) and there's no taxes/fees paid on those from what I know of the industry, maybe that doesn't work so well for Europe.

>>66588417
you have to send it in parts to a city in the middle of amazon rainforest (not kidding) and assemble the product there and delivery it in the other side of the country.

>>66587832
>argentine
>very unproductive
Seems about right.

>>66588300
thats the general idea of the argentine , if those groups would't exist the salarys would be really poor but they abuse with strikes

>>66588417
Protectionism, the objective is to encourage national industry but the bureaucracy and taxation are absolutely retarded so we can neither import cheap shit or buy local shit.

>>66587832
>the guy told me we cant fire blue collar workers there because their unions are too strong and influential. so they are very unproductive
The many dictatorships Argentina had were anti union. They banned them, and their economy was shit anyway.

Unions don't help, but it's too reductionist to blame them for the country's undevelopement.

>>66592088
And the voting majority doesn't want to change that?

>>66593023
>And the voting majority doesn't want to change that?
Voting majorities in Latin America are as dumb as in the rest of the world and have no idea about how the economy works.

And even if they had, the interest group minorities are the ones who control parties with their campaign finances and bribes.

>>66593023
Everyone was enamoured with socialism and regulatory economics until Dilma managed to fuck the economy up, libertarianism only started becoming a real movement here very recently but the majority of people are still completely retarded and want either communism or a military state, it doesn't even cross their minds that maybe the government shouldn't be so big and meddle so much in the economy.