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Purchasing power: How many minutes you need to work to buy a Big Mac

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Singapore is at the global average, standing at just under 40 mins. That's pretty long, if you start counting the number of dependants over the three meals in a day.

Value starts to make sense when you corelate it with blood and sweat.

(I wonder if they adjusted for the indigenous prices of the Big Mac.)