[extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour?

[Alfio Puglisi]

On 11/12/05, Joseph Bloch <transhumanist at goldenfuture.net> wrote:
> I've always wondered about those statistics, which say that people in
> under-developed countries make $x an hour. Do those figures take into
> account the buying power of a dollar in that country?

They don't. And, as you say, taking into account purchasing power
makes those figures more reasonable.

Alfio