Not specifically, but I lived in Manhatten on minimum wage back in the early 80s and a cup of coffee didn't cost $12.

>Uhm have you done the math on what it takes to survive off the US minimum wage on any of the US Coasts?
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>It ain't all that different in relative terms.
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>US = Third World Country
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>in that (and many other) respects.
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>>>$3000 in a third world countries is too big because the cost of living is very low. In the U.S. for instance, a coffee worth $6 is only $1.8 here or PHP80. Our minimum pay here is US$8 a day but 1 liter of gasoline here is only US$.80.
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>>Ok, gas here is about $3/gallon, but I would never work for $30/day. There must be more to it. $8/day just can't be enough to live on, but obviously it is. That coffee would be almost 1/4 of the daily wage. That better be one helluva a cup of coffee if I'm going to shell out almost $100 dollars for it! But I do realize that $8 is the minimum, not what a developer might make. Still...