McDonalds and Poverty : Making Ends Meet

According to today’s Parade magazine, the UBS Bank calculated how long it takes an average worker around the world to earn enough to buy a Big Mac. If you live in Tokyo, apparently you can have a Big Mac soonest.

Would you just look at how mouth-watering is this baby? Im just stopping my urge to grab one right now.

City	Minutes
Tokyo	10
New York	13
London	16
Hong Kong	17
Paris	21
Moscow	25
Rome	39
Beijing	44
Manila	81
Jakarta	86

Unfortunately, for Filipinos, we have to work a close to an hour and a half just to have a sumptuous BigMac snack. But hey! lets look at the other side of the coin, we have banana cues, balots, kwek2x and oh, fishballs! And they only take a coin off our hard earned money.

Its pretty amazing to think that one regular McDonald's burger needs a 45-minute jog just to burn the fat away from harming our body. Now hows that for a 3-minute earned snack?