<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>gte910h</author><text>AUS is interesting. Everyone lives in VERY large cities, they&apos;re very far from many places where vegetables are grown, they have had a HUGE mining boom (which means more money chasing fewer goods, and the cities are incredibly far from one another)&lt;p&gt;Add onto that the Parallel Import Tax (which prevents people from just importing it themselves), and you have an INCREDIBLY captive market, getting gouged on all corners. Sure the high minwages dive costs up, but the high minwages are needed for the high costs too that it takes to live there.&lt;p&gt;They&apos;re quite recently dropping lots of the items off the PIT list, and prices are going down. Imagine that, drop protectionist tariffs, and prices decrease.</text><parent_chain><item><author>icelancer</author><text>If you adjust for COL, it&apos;s not close. The U.S. dominates. AUS has very high minimum wages which drives up costs. Look at Steam games in AUD vs. USD.</text></item><item><author>GFischer</author><text>It&apos;s pretty obvious, but country is strongly correlated with compensation.&lt;p&gt;If we want to get paid, we have to move (or get a job) in the U.S. or Australia (didn&apos;t know Australia was that well-paying)</text></item><item><author>chrisaycock</author><text>From playing around with the data, &lt;i&gt;Stack Overflow reputation&lt;/i&gt; was not strongly correlated with &lt;i&gt;compensation&lt;/i&gt;. Instead, &lt;i&gt;experience&lt;/i&gt; (and naturally &lt;i&gt;age&lt;/i&gt;) exhibited a stronger relationship with getting paid.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Analysis of Stack Overflow&apos;s Survey of 10K developers</title><url>https://www.statwing.com/demos/dev-survey</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>podperson</author><text>You might want to consider some other comparator — I like the cost of a combo meal at Mcdonalds (The Economist uses the price of a Big Nac). In my experience, consumer electronics are cheaper in the US but good produce is cheaper in Australia.</text><parent_chain><item><author>icelancer</author><text>If you adjust for COL, it&apos;s not close. The U.S. dominates. AUS has very high minimum wages which drives up costs. Look at Steam games in AUD vs. USD.</text></item><item><author>GFischer</author><text>It&apos;s pretty obvious, but country is strongly correlated with compensation.&lt;p&gt;If we want to get paid, we have to move (or get a job) in the U.S. or Australia (didn&apos;t know Australia was that well-paying)</text></item><item><author>chrisaycock</author><text>From playing around with the data, &lt;i&gt;Stack Overflow reputation&lt;/i&gt; was not strongly correlated with &lt;i&gt;compensation&lt;/i&gt;. Instead, &lt;i&gt;experience&lt;/i&gt; (and naturally &lt;i&gt;age&lt;/i&gt;) exhibited a stronger relationship with getting paid.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Analysis of Stack Overflow&apos;s Survey of 10K developers</title><url>https://www.statwing.com/demos/dev-survey</url></story>