What Carrier employees in Mexico can buy with $3 Hourly Wage

[Donkees]

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1. Interesting. It seems that $3 buys about the same groceries in Mexico as in the US.

A jug of milk and a loaf of bread was $3, or 50 pesos, in the Mexican market.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Funny you should mention milk...

Recent travels have taken me to two states, MI & PA, where the price of a gallon of milk was well over $3. If anyone residing in either of those states believes that I was witnessing statistical outliers, I'd appreciate being set straight on the matter.

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3. I'm aware that milk and bread at a small market in the U.S. can easily cost more $3.

Around here, it might be something like $3.29 for the milk and $1.39 for the bread.

But what I was remarking on was the fact that while the wage differential between the Mexican workers and the US workers is something like 7:1, the price differential for groceries is only around 1.3:1, or something like that.

Mexican wages are dirt cheap while their groceries are roughly the same price as the U.S.

They must either they grow their own food, or their other living expenses must be very low.

I don't know.

If it took an hour of my wages to buy one jug of milk and a loaf of bread, something would have to change drastically in the way we live.