• Neptium
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      181 year ago

      That’s the infamous 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. Neoliberalism does it’s wonders aye?

    • @whoami
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      61 year ago

      thailand has a bigger downward spike, is that the one you mean?

        • @redtea
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          1 year ago

          Looks like Malaysia drops from about 3.2 to 1.5 around 1997 (approximate loss of $1.70p/h, or >½). And that Thailand drops from about 2.6 to 1.8 around 2015 (approximate loss of $0.80p/h, or roughly >⅓). Are Frippa and I reading this wrong?

          Edit: Q to @whoami@lemmygrad.ml, not Frippa.

          • @whoami
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            31 year ago

            ahhhhh I’m just dumb. Yes Malaysia had a massive drop in the 90’s. Thailand had a drop around 2015

            • @redtea
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              51 year ago

              Not at all, it’s not the clearest graph. It’s not accessible. Graphics departments need to realise that different colours need to be distinctly different, or add arrows like they did here with India and the Philippines.

    • @REEEEvolution
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      81 year ago

      Aswell as ensurance and so on. But yes, most it are wages.

        • @freagle
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          41 year ago

          They’ve been doing this for decades. It’s nothing new. Listen to publicly traded companies quarterly shareholder meetings, or even just USA’s Federal Reserve. I worked at a place that had different wages for different cities. They called the differential a COLA. Not “Cost Of Living Adjustment”. They called it “Cost Of Labor Acquisition”.

  • @Shrike502
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    101 year ago

    Oh no where will the poor western bourgeoisie offshore their manufacturing now?!

    • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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      131 year ago

      Socialism With Chinese Characteristics, official name of chinese system.