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Archelon@lemmy.world 6 months agoen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_China
Looks like the lowest as of 2023 equates to about 1.79 USD an hour?
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That sounds crazy low, but I also wonder what the spending power is there? I mean, if you take $7/hr in the US and put that in San Francisco, you’re gonna have a rough time, but lots of places that’s uncomfortable but not starving, you know?
Just from context and reports about conditions of poor Chinese people, I imagine it’s worse than our $7 in a rural area, but I don’t feel like I can get a clear idea of what that means to a person living there beyond “that’s really poor.”