Many thanks, Chris. Does this chart show how many minutes it takes an (average?) person to earn the money to buy the item?
Thus, in some places bread costs relatively more/less than hamburger? And in some places they are relatively more expensive than in others? Cheers, Lawry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] Work hours needed to live > I am preparing a talk on the growing domination of systems (social and > technical), and am hoping that one of you may know a bit about the > calculations that have been made of how many hours/day a person has to work > to live, compared to such levels in the past. Can anyone steer me in the > right direction? Talking about systems, don't forget to consider the big local differences at the same time -- cf. e.g. the famous comparison of how many minutes of labor it takes to buy a hamburger or 1 kg of bread: http://www.welt.de/download/wirtschaft/bigmac_index_dw.jpg HTH, Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
