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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5902095" data-attributes="member: 40166">Why? How is that a better comparison?I have a problem with a "median worldwide income" in that it's averaging dissimilar things. The price of a Big-Mac varies by a factor of three between the Ukraine and Switzerland. Your $7000 wage is not sufficient to put a roof over your head in some places I've lived; I don't think it's enough to scrape by without government or other help anywhere in the US. Obviously that $7000 means something different to those earning it then it would to me. Since part of my goal was to ponder what it would feel like if I were in a D&D world and someone tossed me a copper or a gold, or someone walked by throwing gold around, it needs to be in terms of money as it means to me and my players. Certainly when I'm thinking about stressing about how much my groceries cost, the fact that food is cheaper now then then makes the copper worth more, not less.There's certainly an argument that rather then pegging minimum wage to minimum wage, we should see what happens if we peg middle class to middle class. I still think it should be concrete numbers that matter to the people making the connection, not abstract median world income.</blockquote>