That Mr Humala may be elected despite or because of being loathed by most better-off Peruvians and much of the country's media is a backhanded tribute to democracy.
The government is planning a scheme to offer extra support to working parents with younger children, including a tax-free voucher system allowing most better-off parents to claim up to £1,200 towards the cost of looking after a child.
He defended the changes, saying they would leave most workers better off and provide a far simpler system than the "chaotic" one currently in place.
And it would leave all but the richest 20% of Americans who use the most energy materially better off, she says.Ms Cantwell's bill is refreshingly simple.
Hence the reluctance of Democratic presidential candidates to defend free trade, even when they know it will make most voters better off, and the reluctance of their Republican counterparts to defend George Bush's liberal line on immigration.The make-work bias is best illustrated by a story, perhaps apocryphal, of an economist who visits China under Mao Zedong.
The stimulus is the reason, in fact, that most Americans are better off than they were four years ago, when the economy was in serious danger of shutting down.
The review, published last month, argued that most people were better off after a boost to stock market and property values that could be directly attributed to QE.
Now there is a recovery that leaves most people no better off, the EU is struggling and divided, and events in the wider world brutally illustrate the UK's impotence.
But, on Damelin's description of his customers as members of the "Facebook generation", most would be better off curtailing their spending or joining the world of mainstream finance.
In short, most investors are better off in an index fund.
It's not exactly the relaxing experience some might anticipate; most would be better off going with a straight massage or debloating full-body seaweed mask.
