South America had had a lot of regimes that handed out state funds to this group and that. The Bolivarian Revolution has that. But to which group? From what I've read Mission Habitat housing has gone mostly to Chavez/Maduro voters, for example. Friends of the local party functionaries.
I suppose you might say that's still better than letting the rich and corrupt help themselves to public resources.
Venezuela has a legitimate elected president, Brazil ousted a honest one and put a corrupt in the seat through a coup d'etat. Not coincidentally, he is selling with a big discount all national companies and resources, what Maduro and Venezuela will never do.
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Yes, math can model "continuous quantities", but is the idea of "quantity" anything more than a human abstraction? How do you define quantity, and can you do it without the notion of counting and discrete objects?
> What, to you, would not qualify as a human abstraction?
Nothing insofar as "what" implies a load of human abstractions. But it's clear that there is a lot of "stuff" out there that no human has ever experienced. It is extremely improbable that humans exist at a "Goldilock's scale" wherein we are even physically capable of experiencing "everything" and of finding boundaries on the universe.
> Absolutely. See Tarski's axiomatization of the real numbers, for instance.
I meant counting in the broadest sense, which is where numbers themselves emerge from. It seems plausible that there are alien modes of cognition that don't rely on the notion of object and can approach continuous "stuff" more directly. Maybe even some terrestrial organisms work this way.
