Originally Posted by
LeonOfTheDead
Excellent job Albert.
Now we could even take into count other factors, such as, how much money Joe Average spends every moths to pay bills, health care, taxes, and other things which are "mandatory" but very different in each country.
At the end of such a calculation, it should came out who can spend more on his car and who has the larger part of his check gone into other costs.
Like saying, I could even get 3.000 € a month as a blue collar, but if then I have to pay more for water, electricity, food and other necessary goods, perhaps at the end of the day a blue collar living on Pluto and receiving 1.000 € a month has more money to spend the way he prefers every month after he payed all the bills&co.
A quick whip-out of the ol' Human Geography texbook shows that (in 2005):
Americans spent more than 10% of their GDP on healthcare.
Canadians spent 8-10%
Italians spent 8-10%
Spaniards spent 6-8%
Aussies spent 8-10%
Most of the first world is in the 8-10% bracket.
As you can see, this means Americans have recognized universal healthcare as the evil communist-stalinist-leninist etc... conspiracy that it is, but it does take a good chunk of car money out of out pockets.
If you want any more countries just ask.
"Kimi, can you improve on your [race] finish?"
"No. My Finnish is fine; I am from Finland. Do you have any water?"