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The world's cheapest Domino's pizza is in inflation-hit India. It costs $0.60 (www.channelnewsasia.com)

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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

The material conditions of people within India are just as important when putting things like this in context. The minimum wage for unskilled workers in New Dehli is equivalent to a salary of $202.64, or $0.10/hr. That pizza is insanely expensive for people in India.

[-] Tankaus@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

6 hours of work for a Domino's pizza is pretty damn insane.

[-] i_am_hard@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Legal minimum wage in Delhi 663 rs per day. Which is about $.80/hr. https://labour.delhi.gov.in/sites/default/files/Labour/generic_multiple_files/minimum_wages_current.pdf

[-] fkn@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

That doesn't mean that wage is respected in India... Particularly in areas where labor far exceeds demand.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know where you're getting the numbers on that conversion, 663 rs is equivalent to $8.08.

From your same source, I rounded up to 16800 rs and divided by 2080 (40/hr weeks for 52 weeks), which came out to 8.08 rs/hr, which converts to $0.10/hr. it doesn't seem to me that the daily wage is equivalent to the yearly wage. With a complete shot in the dark, it seems like that's intentional as a poor attempt to dissuade the use of short term labor.

[-] vaseltarp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That 16800 rs in the source is per month not per year. If it is 663 rs ($8.08) per day and lets say 10 hours of work per day then it is $8.08/10 ~= $0.80 per hour.

[-] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I can't access that website for whatever reason. Are you sure you aren't looking at the minimum wage in India and they are looking at the minimum wage in New Dheli?

[-] i_am_hard@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

From the link. 663 is the per day wage for unskilled worker. 663/8 ~82.88. And since dollar is trading at around 82 rupees. It's about a dollar an hour. Again this the legal minimum wage. Lots of jobs especially in unorganized sector is below this but all workers in organised sector should be making above this.

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I get that this price is high compared to relative local wages. But I don't understand is how is Domino's making pizzas this cheap without all the subsidies for wheat and milk that we benefit from in the United States?

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile in NZ, a supermarket chain decides to spend $400 million on rebranding in the middle of a cost of living crisis.

I don't like Domino's, they have shit pizza. But they are doing right by their customers and .. I'm impressed.

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