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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The material conditions of people within India are just as important when putting things like this in context. The minimum wage for unskilled workers in New Dehli is equivalent to a salary of $202.64, or $0.10/hr. That pizza is insanely expensive for people in India.

[–] i_am_hard@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't know where you're getting the numbers on that conversion, 663 rs is equivalent to $8.08.

From your same source, I rounded up to 16800 rs and divided by 2080 (40/hr weeks for 52 weeks), which came out to 8.08 rs/hr, which converts to $0.10/hr. it doesn't seem to me that the daily wage is equivalent to the yearly wage. With a complete shot in the dark, it seems like that's intentional as a poor attempt to dissuade the use of short term labor.

[–] vaseltarp@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

That 16800 rs in the source is per month not per year. If it is 663 rs ($8.08) per day and lets say 10 hours of work per day then it is $8.08/10 ~= $0.80 per hour.

[–] fkn@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

That doesn't mean that wage is respected in India... Particularly in areas where labor far exceeds demand.