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It also helps to have a lower wage and higher unemployment rate. In the US when you have Taco Bell paying $15/hr, you would need to pay a fair bit more for som

It also helps to have a lower wage and higher unemployment rate. In the US when you have Taco Bell paying $15/hr, you would need to pay a fair bit more for someone with a clean driving record and a car. And at that point, is it really worth $20 to get a single toy from the store?

ghaff 4y ago
>It also helps to have a lower wage and higher unemployment rate. In a lot of Southeast Asia, personal service generally (drivers, full-time home help) is a lot more common generally for middle class-ish people than it is in the US or Western Europe.
- thr0wawayf00 4y ago
  Right, because there isn't a minimum wage in a lot of those places. I found out that the lady who took out the trash in my office made about $2 per hour when I lived in Singapore (one of the most expensive cities in the world).
  - MomoXenosaga 4y ago
    All these Silicon valley start ups are trying really desperately to argue that they are not actually employing people.
    - ev1 4y ago
      While the same startup refers to their employees as "headcount" and "resources"...