This was taken inside the Kai Yuan Temple in Quanzhou during my recent trip to China. The girls were tourists visiting the city.
11/20/2005
1965-2005 - the pace of change
egg 10c-15c 1.5x
bus fare 10c-60c 6x
newspaper 20c-80c 4x
bowl of mee 30c-$3 10x
kopi o 10c-70c 7x
barber 50c-$8 15x
taxi 40c-$2 5x
luckystrike 90c-$10 11x
small car $6,000-$60,000 10x
mercedes200 $12,000-$170,000 14x
3 rm flat $7,500-$100,000 13x
4 rm flat $12,500-$200,000 15x
semi d $20,000-$1.4mil 70x
big sweep $400,000-$2 mil 5x
worker salary $100-$600 6x starting salary
grad salary $800-$1,500 2x starting salary
minister salary $5,000-$80,000 16x
number of babies 6-2 -3x
the above are just very rough guesstimates. it was a time when earning a 4 figure salary, ie $1,000 was a big deal. today the expectation of a big deal is a 5 figure salary.
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