Message from @hcaez

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2019-01-12 20:16:53 UTC  

not even close

2019-01-12 20:17:30 UTC  

Search for cambodia

2019-01-12 20:17:37 UTC  

People can’t survive right now with 8 an hour

2019-01-12 20:18:01 UTC  

Families need to have more than 3 jobs to survive now it’s sad

2019-01-12 20:18:19 UTC  

They would if dumbass Keyneisans let deflation happen

2019-01-12 20:18:22 UTC  

but of course not

2019-01-12 20:20:41 UTC  

oh in their data hong kong is #1

2019-01-12 20:20:45 UTC  

yea

2019-01-12 20:20:55 UTC  

but plenty of cheap products come from there that are made with low wages

2019-01-12 20:21:10 UTC  

Hong Kong has one of the highest incomes in the world

2019-01-12 20:21:16 UTC  

not to mention there is a min wage

2019-01-12 20:21:24 UTC  

It doesn't come from there anyways, it comes from China

2019-01-12 20:21:43 UTC  

It's why Hong Kong had such a rapid expansion

2019-01-12 20:21:49 UTC  

yes the min wage is 32.5 HKD

2019-01-12 20:21:56 UTC  

which is roughly 4 USD

2019-01-12 20:22:00 UTC  

What is that in USD?

2019-01-12 20:22:07 UTC  

Oh so that’s what sidd wants here

2019-01-12 20:22:09 UTC  

scaling for differences in cost of living

2019-01-12 20:22:13 UTC  

Let’s become China good idea

2019-01-12 20:22:17 UTC  

thats less money comparatively

2019-01-12 20:22:26 UTC  

A min wage still distorts the market

2019-01-12 20:22:33 UTC  

But no

2019-01-12 20:22:43 UTC  

If I said China I would say

2019-01-12 20:22:48 UTC  

let's regulate more and have a min wage with higher taxes

2019-01-12 20:22:49 UTC  

But I didn't

2019-01-12 20:23:44 UTC  

according to numbeo, hong kong experiences a higher cost of living compared to the US

2019-01-12 20:24:04 UTC  

Yes

2019-01-12 20:24:07 UTC  

with lower wages

2019-01-12 20:24:29 UTC  

but the people there have to accept the min wage work to survive

2019-01-12 20:24:31 UTC  

Lower wages =/= lower minimum wage

2019-01-12 20:24:46 UTC  

But remember, even Hong Kong is not a free market

2019-01-12 20:25:00 UTC  

well it's the freest in the world according to that site you linked

2019-01-12 20:25:07 UTC  

Not the free market however

2019-01-12 20:25:46 UTC  

Hong Kong has high rent prices due the the very controls of the land where houses may be built

2019-01-12 20:25:56 UTC  

and caged housing is the same story, it was going down before that policy was implemented

2019-01-12 20:26:10 UTC  

And the fact that interest rates were very low, they don't have a gold standard

2019-01-12 20:26:46 UTC  

so it would be fair to compare hk to manhattan, also high rent prices

2019-01-12 20:27:04 UTC  

similar population

2019-01-12 20:27:18 UTC  

No because we must see it at an microeconomic bases