If we’re talking other countries we need to adjust to prices in other countries, ones that don’t have student debts and medical bills to worry about. If I get analogue of a million bucks in my currency, I wouldn’t have to sweat how much of that I will have to give up because I had bad cold 10 years ago. It’s a different world, so it’s a different million
World average income is 10,000$ per year.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17512040
If we’re talking other countries we need to adjust to prices in other countries, ones that don’t have student debts and medical bills to worry about. If I get analogue of a million bucks in my currency, I wouldn’t have to sweat how much of that I will have to give up because I had bad cold 10 years ago. It’s a different world, so it’s a different million
Yes, economists do that, we all are aware
Well, in this conversation we aren’t. We compare a million dollars in context of the US, and a salary on the other side of the world.
Yes, that’s what we’re doing. You might not be doing that but then you’re replying to the wrong comments.
Did you lost the context already? Come on, we’re only like 6 short comments deep at this point, it’s not that complicated.
The context of a thread started by someone referring to the global average and you interjected with your united statesian centric perspective?
Are you guys all can’t read more than two comments deep?
Edit: same guy actually, but what does it matter