OK I lowballed the cost of labor down there, but using the conversion rate of about 20 peso/dollar your numbers are way off too. 150 peso = $7.65 for how many hours of work?
Gimme a break
I LIVE HERE. The Peso 20 to 1 exchange rate was YEARS AGO. The last time I paid the ladies it was at 18.50 to the dollar.
I love it when someone thousands of miles outside of Mexico tries to correct me about reality. This is the foundation for BS about this country. And there have been folks who lectured me about rebuilding alternators having never taken one apart. Lead-acid batteries too.
This is NOT the Mexico of 40 years ago. Sitting beside me is a brand new SIEMENS mde-in-Mexico radiator fan motor for my car. I ground my way into the original Oriental made fan motor, and compared it with the Mexican made motor which has nuts and bolts.
The oriental motor is a joke. The brush length via the brush holder dimensions ARE TWICE AS LONG. There is more copper and there are more laminations in the SIEMENS which weighs 37% more. I can buy replacement brushes for the SIEMENS at Home Depot.
If a person travels south to Oaxaca, Chiapas, wages, and expenses are a lot lower. That is "the other Mexico" the Mexico that has hardware stores with 5% of the variety, supermarkets with ghastly tasting mayonnaise brands, and no butter only chassis grease grade margarine. 90% inventory of Nescafe instant, and 20% the inventory variety. Go to the inner cities of the USA and you will find poverty, ignorance and corner markets with exactly the same issues as Mexico.
But these folks WANT TO WORK. My housekeepers earn eight dollars an hour. That's why I have two. A steam-cleaning of my car engine and chassis is 500 pesos or twenty-eight dollars at 10-minute old dollar peso exchange rates. And that's the lowest price place in a city of 400,000
But it's the selection of a country halfway around the world with nuclear missiles pointed at us, versus a friendly neighbor crying for more work that bugs the hell out of me. There is a TRILLION DOLLAR industry ripe for the creation and hundreds of thousands of prospective small businesses waiting to be created in the USA...
A/C units with built-in soft starters.
Generators with fuel injection engines, and computer management with 30% fuel savings.
And endless other benefits that STOPS MONEY from going overseas and attracts ex-patriates to return home to a decent standard of living.
All being ignored...
