It seems that the problem, if there is one, with ending the 6x1 work schedule (analogous to slavery), is that it would further increase employers' costs, especially those with "smaller economic stature," stifling the economy. However, as the right itself also criticizes, the real problem is not the worker or employee having the right to rest that is not limited to one day a week, as they seem to claim, but the high tax burden in Brazil, which "eats up" a large portion of the population's earnings. Therefore, instead of many on the right, stupidly and/or perversely, opposing the end of a cruel system of economic exploitation, perhaps simply because it is a left-wing agenda, they should focus on reducing taxes and, at the same time, supporting this measure, since both benefit workers and entrepreneurs, in short, the economy itself...
domingo, 19 de abril de 2026
Ainda sobre o fim da escala 6x1 e a crítica à direita
Parece que o problema, se existe, do fim da escala 6x1 (análoga à escravidão), seria que isso aumentaria ainda mais os custos dos empregadores, especialmente os de "menor envergadura econômica", sufocando a economia. No entanto, como a própria direita também critica, o problema realmente não é o trabalhador ou o empregado ter direito a um descanso que não se limite a um dia semanal, como parece afirmar a mesma, mas a alta carga tributária no Brasil, que "come" um bocado dos ganhos da população. Portanto, ao invés de muitos da direita, estúpida e/ou perversamente, se colocarem contra o fim de um sistema cruel de exploração econômica, talvez só por ser uma pauta de esquerda, deveriam focar na redução dos impostos e, ao mesmo tempo, apoiando essa medida, já que ambas favorecem tanto os trabalhadores quanto os empreendedores, enfim, a própria economia...
True Political Awareness
The 6x1 scale is about to fall. It will be the current president, Lula, in this April of 2026 when I write this text, who will finally launch the bill to be approved. This is a promise he and his party have made since his first term, back in 2002. And what does this mean??
That I, who should be directly benefited, will have to bow to the great "Brazilian helmsman" and be eternally grateful??
No. But that's what people on the left preach: that specific gratitude is the same as absolute submission. But when a politician serves the population, he is doing nothing more than his duty. He is doing the basics, which every democratically elected politician should do. Furthermore, it is necessary, intelligently, to analyze not only one measure taken by a politician, but in relation to everything he has already done, or at least, to greatly broaden the critical view of him. Preferably, a rational view: objective and impartial. So, based on this approach, it's impossible to treat the current president as the typical PT supporter wants us to treat him: as an extraordinary human being, above all criticism. It's quite clear, for those accustomed to reason, that the PT governments, which have already spanned two decades, present a prevalence of results ranging from ignoble to very negative (increased crime*, continued serious failures in education and health, practically epidemic political corruption...).
*One of the causes of which is the rigging of the judiciary with "anti-punitive professionals" or those forced to act according to laws imposed by politicians of this same ideology.
For true political awareness is precisely about placing oneself above, not below, the political class. Treating them as employees, for what they are, and not as kings, as many of them would like to be seen and treated...
Therefore, treating Lula the way he deserves, according to what he has done, is doing, and continues to do in politics. Tip: nothing close to "based on the perfection of legacy and actions," according to Lula supporters...
Therefore, it's a: "Oh, that's good, Lula... Finally..."
"Thank you (?)"
But...
"...for that reason alone, I will not vote for you in this election (in my case, again), since, if your actions are not limited only to the 'end of the 6x1 scale,' your legacy of more than twenty years of PT governments and, currently, until the first half of 2026, has been much worse than your propaganda."
Furthermore, to conclude, true political awareness requires that we become clever, in a good way, than the politicians we elect or who make up the political class of our country, and not the opposite. In short, to "empower" ourselves as ordinary citizens and not to "empower" them...
A verdadeira conscientização política
A escala 6x1 está para cair. Será o atual presidente, Lula, nesse abril de 2026 em que escrevo esse texto, que irá finalmente lançar o projeto de lei para ser aprovado. Isso que se trata de uma promessa dele e do seu partido desde o seu primeiro mandato, já no longínquo ano de 2002. E o que isso significa??
The Problem of Constant/Compulsory Appeal to Scientific Evidence in Promoting Public Policy
Specifically Regarding a Certain Issue
Hypothetically speaking, let's consider that:
"It has been found that some people who commit heinous crimes (out of pure sadism: without complex contexts that could justify them) show a capacity for resocialization."
In this hypothetical scenario, according to legitimate scientific evidence, disregarding the falsifications made by subtypes of pseudoscientists, such as a likely majority of sociologists, for example.
So, even if science achieves this result, it's not fair that someone who commits a heinous crime should have the right to reintegration into society simply because they showed good behavior during their incarceration and even afterward. After all, it's only fair that they remain in prison out of respect for the victim(s), their family, and friends... This is the most important point: an individual who commits a heinous crime, beyond all possible ambiguities, should not be imprisoned "only" because of the crime or the action, but also because of the person or being who was victimized. In other words, also "out of respect" for the victim, their memory, and those most tenderly associated with them. This is more of a moral and philosophical question than just a technical scientific one. Or perhaps the problem lies in the focus many place on: the capacity for resocialization rather than the severity of the crime and what is truly just, a kind of meta-justice: about what is just for the sake of being just, without falling into what seems to be a technicistic trap, at the very least, suspicious...
O problema do apelo constante/compulsório à evidência científica no fomento de políticas públicas
Especificamente a uma certa questão