[Jewelry making - Article 00349] - Re: [Orchid] India among lowest cost producers of jewelry

[Trevor F]

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    I know I should stay out of this one but... well, I'm sure you know
    the rest. 

    One of the contributors to this thread expressed disbelief that US$40
    a week was a fair wage for anyone, no matter where in the world they
    lived. Three words: it's all relative. 

    About 10 years ago I fantasized about moving to India. A friend of
    mine there explained that I could live on about US$2 per day, rent a
    decent house for about US$20 a month and retire the day I arrived, in
    comfort, on US$100,000. The point being that you can't judge a
    foreign economy by your local standards. 

    It is the _local_ cost of living, not _your_ cost of living, that
    determines whether a given wage there is good, bad or otherwise. 

Cheers,
Trevor F.
in The City of Light
Visit TouchMetal.com at http://www.touchmetal.com


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