It's really sad that the games industry is drained by a 30% tax on gross revenue. You could vibe code a Steam alternative in a week. Cloudflare egress is basically free. The industry is in desperate need of a distribution platform that allows developers to keep their revenue. Networks effects and the fanatic obsession with "muh Steam library" will make this very difficul. But if devs could actually keep their earnings, we'd have a greater selection of better games and far more financial success stories.

In Brazil, Recife rents for more than Curitiba and is over 3x as deadly. A 70 m² apartment in Recife costs R$1,000 a month more than the same apartment in Curitiba. The world's biggest crowdsourced city-rating site ranks São Paulo 7th of 9 Brazilian cities and Rio de Janeiro dead last. Those ratings come from strangers filling out online surveys. So I rebuilt the ranking for 51 Brazilian cities using only official data. Each city got a score out of 100 from six factors. Social progress (25%): 57 checks on daily life, like school quality, life expectancy, internet access, parks and clean water. Safety (25%): the murder rate. Income (20%): what families earn per person and what formal jobs pay. Air access (10%): how many people fly through the city's airport each year. Infant health (10%): how many babies survive their first year. Sanitation (10%): how many homes have running water and a sewer connection. São Paulo jumped to 4th of 34, and Rio landed 13th. Then I plotted every score against rent, and the map of Brazil flipped. São Paulo charges the most rent of any city on the chart, and it earns it. Curitiba ranks 2nd and rents for R$49 per square meter, below the middle of the pack. Recife ranks 30th at R$64. Belém rents for more than Florianópolis and scores less than half as high. All six cities in the bad-value corner are capitals in the Northeast or North. João Pessoa breaks the Northeast pattern with the best social progress score of any Northeast capital at middle-of-the-pack rent. Brazil's best deals are Curitiba, Goiânia, Joinville and Campo Grande, where you get an above-average city for below-average rent. Which Brazilian city would you rank higher than the data does?

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