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A Boring Dystopia

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[โ€“] aidan@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The minimum wage in the Phillipines is around $10 a day.

[โ€“] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

If this is right:

Looks like the absolute max is less than $10, and the absolute minimum is less than six dollars.

  • $5.24 (306 PHP)
    to
  • $9.76 (570 PHP)

How come agricultural laborers get shafted? An immediate guess is the government trying to keep food costs down.