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Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Sunday, September 22, 2002, 15:27
Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> This sounds alot like the BigMac Index, which's the length of time a > medianly-paid inhabitant of a given country has to work in order to earn > enought money to buy one BigMac.
The trouble here is that Big Macs are sometimes cheap food, sometimes elite food. Bread is not quite universal, but it's a useful comparative standard.
> I don't have any statistics at hand, sadly.
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