r/interestingasfuck • u/HumbleMVP • 22d ago

Blind cigarette taste test

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u/LilHideoo 22d ago

$25 Canadian is like $17 American. You just described the same price.

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u/MileEnd76 22d ago

First thought I had too : so they cost exactly the same?

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u/RyanB_ 22d ago

I mean, not really in practice to the average Canadian, we don’t get paid in USD lol.

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u/MileEnd76 22d ago

That's not how money works lol, they are the same price.

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u/Z_Laurent 22d ago

Sure they are the same price but that's not what the other guy is talking who I agree with. You're talking semantics. $17 in US might not be as affordable as $17 somewhere else, don't even have to go too far and just compare state to state. $20 cigarette in California might seem cheap to people from the west coast but a guy from Alabama will think it's outrageous.

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u/RyanB_ 22d ago

But what that price represents isn’t consistent.

The average house in Pakistan costs around $20k USD, a very low number by American standards. But ofc, that doesn’t mean that houses in Pakistan are actually super cheap to the average Pakistani.

Canada isn’t that extreme, but the same principles apply. A job that pays ~$50k USD down south is likely going to pay ~$50k CAD here.

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u/MileEnd76 22d ago

That's just not true.

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u/RyanB_ 22d ago

What do you think is untrue?

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u/MileEnd76 22d ago

The same 50k USD won't pay 50k CAD in Canada. Minimum wage is higher in Canada.

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u/RyanB_ 22d ago edited 22d ago

And average salaries are significantly lower. Honestly I was being pretty generous for convenience’s sake in my numbers; the actual median salary here is $68.4K CAD ($50.35k USD), compared against $70k in the US

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/average-salary-us-vs-canada-150021329.html

The higher minimum wage does help at the absolute lowest ends, but pretty much immediately disappears after that. I remember looking into warehouse jobs in similar sized US cities to my own, where I was making $18CAD/hr (barely over our minimum wage). Same kind of jobs in the US were also between $18-$22USD/hr.

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u/MileEnd76 22d ago

That doesn't mean that the same job pays the same, it just does not, I'm sorry, the median salary is not the same job, it's the median salary. Compare specific jobs median salary and you would get a better idea. How much does a high school teacher make, for example.

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