So, you WANT to live in a third-world country with third-world wages?
You WANT to live behind the walls of a gated community with 24/7 armed guards as my relatives in Brazil, or as my parents did for a few years in Manila?
You WANT to worry about you or your family being kidnapped for ransom as the rich are south of the Rio Grande?
Take every middle-class suburb in your area, and imagine it as the ghetto. Entire metro areas as Compton. You want to live in that kind of a country?
Screw that, YOU get a clue.
We are far from becoming Brazil, where a state-regulated economy and a culture that values leisure over work and saving has caused the problems you see today.