Times of social unprotection

the fraying of the 1988 in Brazilian social pact

Abstract

This article examines the unraveling of the 1988 federal pact, which established the democratic rule of law and approved the welfare state in post-military dictatorship Brazil. The article focuses on the Brazilian welfare state after 35 years of institutionalization, a period that saw the Covid-19 pandemic and the country being governed by an anti-democratic political group. The democratic reconstruction of redistributive social policies brings to the fore a strong presence of the Fiscal State seeking ways to reduce the attention and coverage of the Welfare State. This incursion leads to the practice of meritocratic ideology through the selection of poverty income levels, which flows into unethical behavior based on the social recognition of citizenship. The emp) and field of monetary benefit granting establishes selective income tools, operated by AI (artificial intelligence banking), and applies its own concepts to a state regime with a high incidence of accountability, punishment, and discrimination measures.