[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[Timsup2nothin]

Funny, yet not a graph

Definitely a chart though.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

 

[Paul in Saudi]

Persons in local jails and state/federal prisons.

(I have no idea how I screwed this up.)

 

[Takhisis]

A chart of my own…

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DB1AohXXoAAGwN9.jpg

Animal tests have just a very bad image, whereas stem cell tests have a more neutral one

Ah, yes. Quite a lot of people who oppose cock fights are OK with boxing matches.

Cutting wages helps the economy. So does paying pawnbrokers and thieves with massive interest

The UK never defaults on its debt.

http://geology.com/stories/13/bear-areas/

No teddies mentioned.

 

[El_Machinae]

The 'working-wage divided by big mac price' is a really awesome tool for measuring net productivity and how it ties in with lower wages. I've listened to the inventor of the concept a couple of times, and it's always been fun.

 

[Cutlass]

Interesting that Canada is cheaper than the US, even though the exchange rate and price levels haven't been in Canada's favor on most things in the past few years.

 

[El_Machinae]

And not just cheaper, relatively cheaper! Our low-wage workers have an easier time affording them.

 

[Takhisis]

The contrast between 'Mericans thinking of McDonalds as cheap stuff and people in other countries thinking it's a good place to go out to always amuses me. And bemuses me as well, now that I think of it.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

The 'working-wage divided by big mac price' is a really awesome tool for measuring net productivity and how it ties in with lower wages. I've listened to the inventor of the concept a couple of times, and it's always been fun.

Is it really ? It seems very simplistic to me. There are a lot of factors that go into the pricing of fast food that it doesn't take into account. Does the government put an extra tax on fast food or foreign chain restaurants ? Are the ingredients different because of standards and regulations ? Inside the EU they are probably the same, between the EU, USA and China they probably aren't.
Is the kind of food just more (or less) popular in one country due to more (or less) succesful marketing, less competition in the burger market or cultural factors that make the price more or less competitive ?

For what it's worth, I don't think MacDonalds is either cheap or patricularly good. When I want fast food I'll eat a Currywurst or Kebab.

 

[Colon]

Yeah, the big mac index was amusing for a while, but it's been taken too far.

The 'working-wage divided by big mac price' is a really awesome tool for measuring net productivity and how it ties in with lower wages. I've listened to the inventor of the concept a couple of times, and it's always been fun.

"net productivity"? What's that?

 

[warpus]

Interesting that Canada is cheaper than the US, even though the exchange rate and price levels haven't been in Canada's favor on most things in the past few years.

I wonder if they're using the $15/hr minimum wage metric that now 3 provinces have adopted or are in the process of implementing. That works out to $11.14 USD/hr and from what the internet is telling me minimum wage in the U.S. is $7.25/hr or something like that

With that in mind, Canadian big macs being more affordable seems to make sense. But then again the internet tells me that in California the minimum wage is $10.50USD/hr

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Would that mean that a worker in a country as wealthy as Switzerland could never afford a Big Mac, because they have no minimum wage floor there?

 

[El_Machinae]

In that instance, the goto is to divide the cashier's wage in to the cost of the Big Mac

 

[stfoskey12]

I wonder if they're using the $15/hr minimum wage metric that now 3 provinces have adopted or are in the process of implementing. That works out to $11.14 USD/hr and from what the internet is telling me minimum wage in the U.S. is $7.25/hr or something like that

With that in mind, Canadian big macs being more affordable seems to make sense. But then again the internet tells me that in California the minimum wage is $10.50USD/hr

The minimum wage varies a fair amount by state. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States

 

[warpus]

The minimum wage varies a fair amount by state. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States

Yep.

Which is why I'm confused as to why tipping standards don't seem to change from state to state. Surely if your waiter is making $10 an hour and you are tipping 20%, if your waiter is making $2.23 an hour you should be tipping a lot more than that.

I guess people don't because they are cheap or whatever, but it doesn't seem right

 

[Cutlass]

Yep.

Which is why I'm confused as to why tipping standards don't seem to change from state to state. Surely if your waiter is making $10 an hour and you are tipping 20%, if your waiter is making $2.23 an hour you should be tipping a lot more than that.

I guess people don't because they are cheap or whatever, but it doesn't seem right

It's easy. Who can keep up with all the local conditions?

 

[warpus]

Who can keep up with all the local conditions?

I do, each time I visit some new place I haven't been to before!

Would be a jerk move of me to travel to some place with its unique set of local circumstances and customs only to ignore them

 

[Cutlass]

I do, each time I visit some new place I haven't been to before!

Would be a jerk move of me to travel to some place with its unique set of local circumstances and customs only to ignore them

Nations is one thing. But in the US there's 50 sets of state laws, and who even knows how many local?

 

[warpus]

Nations is one thing. But in the US there's 50 sets of state laws, and who even knows how many local?

With the minimum wage standards, it's a lot easier than having to remember 50 sets of circumstances. There's pretty much only 2 or 3.

Surely the waiters and waitresses working in states where the minimum wage is 4 times lower than in the others hate being pulled in under the same tipping etiquette umbrella. People who only tip 20% are pretty much screwing them over. Imagine making $2.13 an hour and you get 15-20% tips for each meal. Beyond the state line is your friend who is making $9 an hour and gets the exact same tips...

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I thought in Murica you can pay less than the minimum wag as long as tips cover the rest? Maybe only in some states.