Brazilian acquaintance (1 of 2): Economic perspective.

So, from around town in the college town that I now live in, I've gotten to know a visiting (Brazilian) Ph.D. student who's in STEM.

He said that his university has a class on international educational systems to widen students' horizons, and the one thing that they continually point out to them about (American) universities is that universities here are more beholden to capital and corporations and so not to be surprised by that if they see things going on that wouldn't happen in Brazil.

He also needed some spare cash, too, so I linked him up with the (Thai) restaurant, when they needed temporary workers to plate food for some afternoon event on campus where a bunch of different restaurants were all selling food at once like at some kind of fair or something like that.

He liked it, but he said that the one (Thai) (female) restaurant owner with the tired face is "capitalist."

"What do you mean by that?", I was like. "What exactly did she do?".

"Little things," he was like, and he said that they hadn't sold all of the food by the end of the event, but she was still trying to sell it even though it was getting cold, and even though the university event people had told them to stop.

"That's understandable," I was like. "She didn't want to waste it."

"But they told her to stop," he was like.