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Re:Apple is a traditional business by antris on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:12PM (#16978410)
In that case Foxconn isn't an example of an average company paying average wage. The disposable income per capita in China was 36396 chinese yuan in 2017, which makes a little over 400 USD per month. Median disposable income is even lower. You're not even close to buying iPhones with that kind of wages.
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Re:Apple is a traditional business by monocasa on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:55PM (#16978877)
At $400USD/month after food, housing, transportation, and healthcare are taken care of absolutely puts you into iPhone purchasing range.
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Re:Apple is a traditional business by dzonga on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:36PM (#16978704)
my friend lives in Beijing and teaches English and gets paid $3k$ / month. So I can bet a lot of folks are paid decently in China too
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