South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen

Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by lgleason on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:17PM (#33698055)

The average domestic worker in South Africa makes $16 a day and a little bit more for gardening. The domestic will come and clean the house, wash your clothes, iron etc. and put in a full days worth of work. The gardener will spend a full day weeding, mowing etc. etc..

You will not get anything close to that for $100 a week in the US even with an illegal immigrant.

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by pseudo0 on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:59PM (#33698646)

Sure, but the median software engineer in South Africa is making around $20k USD (https://www.payscale.com/research/ZA/Job=Software_Engineer/S...) compared to around $90k in the US. Multiply that $16 by 4.5 and you're at $72, or $9/hour for a full day of work. Do a comparison based on percentage of salary, and the difference is smaller than you would think. It just seems ridiculously cheap in nominal terms.

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by lgleason on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @06:33AM (#33704631)

Most that I know are making a lot more than that in ZA.

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