Edward Jaffe wrote:
Gerhard Adam wrote:
As far as the numbers go, you couldn't survive anywhere in the
United States on $1000/yr. Heck, the federal minimum wage is
currently $5.85/hr which translates to $16,380 if you work 40 hours
a week, fifty weeks per year. Here in California, In-N-Out burger
(http://www.in-n-out.com/) starts people at $9.50/hr! That's
$26,600/yr just to make hamburgers! (Really good ones though!)
I think you might need a new calculator. 40 hours for 50 weeks is
2,000 hours. So $5.85/hr is $11,700 annually, while $9.50/hr is $19,000.
You're right. I was calculating @ seven days/wk. I should have used
five. There's nothing wrong with my calculator. It's my brain that faulty.
In any case, the point about not being able to live for $1000/yr stands.
I see in the current New Yorker there is a movie coming out
called "Outsourced", described as a comedy about a man whose
job is outsourced to India and he must go to India to train
his replacement. Hmmmm. Barrel of laughs, I can see.
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