þ Joe Boswell wrote to Kalman Daniel on 08 Apr 97  12:19:33
Hi there Joe !
 -> JB> pirated these days, mostly it seems by people UNDER the age of
 -> 18, JB> which are never really likely to buy the game they pirate
 -> anyhow, it JB> will eventually effect the quality (in a bad way) of
 -> the games and
 ->  JB> applications put out by software companies.
 -> Would you please tell me how should I buy a $50 game from a hungarian
 -> salary (about $200) ?  And I don't even earn that much as I'm a stude
 JB> Whats that an average of? What line of work?
 
It's an average kind of average :)
But to be more specific, if you work in Mc Donalds, you get 0.85 $ an hour.
This means $150 if you work 5 days a week, 8 hours a day. 
 
 JB> Heh get in contact with the
 JB> hungarian black market if you want games cheaper.
Don't worry, I'm already in contact with us... I mean them :) 
 
 JB> In any case using
 JB> poor salary as an excuse for not purchasing a game is not an excuse at
 JB> all, if you dont have the money to buy a game, you either need to, 1
 JB> work harder,
I suppose games are made for kids/students mainly who can't work harder for
more money.
 
 JB> or 2 heh get the hell out of the country,
Well, that's what I'm not willing to do just to pay Bill what he wants.
 
 JB> by the way is that 200 monthly weekly or what?
Monthly. Weekly 200 is a top category salary here, not an average.
 
 -> understand that they can't sell games in developing countries cheaper
 -> than these games could be bought buy anyone and could be resold
 -> anywhere, but they could sell operating systems which are in
 -> hungarian language cheaper as I
 -> don't think you for example would learn the hungarian language to
 -> use the software.
 JB> kinda understood that but the first parts just hazy?
I meant that they could sell software in poor countries cheaper, and would
make more profit.
 
 -> Do you know how much M$ Office '95 costs in Hungary ?  About $600
 -> which is three month's average salary here.
 JB> Well lets see here, 600 for MS OFFICE 95 huh....
How much does it cost where u live ?  You didn't even say where you live.
 
 JB> Well the AVERAGE wage
 JB> here depending of course on where you work, lets say burger king heh a
 JB> normal job that anYONE can get, bout hmmmm you work your ass off 400
 JB> every 4 weeks, 100 a week,
Now that's a base for comparison, here you'd get $150 for a months work in
burger king.
 
 
 JB> much you make, well its hard to really say anything since I know
 JB> NOTHING about hungary or anything of the sort, heh never really thought
 JB> I would be talking to a guy from there either but....
I don't expect anyone outside of Europe to have heard of Hungary, don't 
orry.
But I do expect you to know where Europe is, as I have heard of a few 
merican
guys who thought it was a state of the USA... :-(
 
 JB> heh anyways you
 JB> mentioned 200 and im guessing thats average wage, again I dont know
 JB> what its an average OF so?
Average salaery/wage for all kinds of work.  But someone who finished high
school usually earns more than $200, lets say $300.  But 10% of people who
could work dont have any job at all, so you have to be happy with anything 
ou
find.
Stay tuned to...
                                          Daniel
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