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It also helps to have a lower wage and higher unemployment rate.

In the US when you have Taco Bell paying $15/hr, you would need to pay a fair bit more for someone with a clean driving record and a car. And at that point, is it really worth $20 to get a single toy from the store?

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>It also helps to have a lower wage and higher unemployment rate.

In a lot of Southeast Asia, personal service generally (drivers, full-time home help) is a lot more common generally for middle class-ish people than it is in the US or Western Europe.

Right, because there isn't a minimum wage in a lot of those places. I found out that the lady who took out the trash in my office made about $2 per hour when I lived in Singapore (one of the most expensive cities in the world).

All these Silicon valley start ups are trying really desperately to argue that they are not actually employing people.

While the same startup refers to their employees as "headcount" and "resources"...

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