>>I may not have a solid understand, but are we truly "rich" here? The wages may be significantly higher here, but isn't the cost of living also? Are there any charts, I wonder, that show the disparity in a balanced way?
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>Cost of the food is the same all over the world according my observations.
>Cost of equipment, fuel and cars, too.
>But housing vary.
>If we like to keep the same standard of living - salaries will vary slightly.
>In less develop countries people have not access to many of the items which we regularly use

The article cited a cafeteria lunch for 50 cents.
And farmers are the most subsidized group of any first-world countries.

I've read that gas in China is about 40 cents per litre.

To me that says that the prices of food/gas/transport are not the same all over the world.

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