[executesorder66]

As a South African this hurts. We were ranked number 1 for purchasing power, and I've heard similar statistics from other sources. But the economy is shitting on us hard, and we are all struggling.

The one thing that isn't taken into account is things like tax wastage. I'd say easily 70 to 80% of our tax money is wasted by our inept government. So we have to fork out so much cash for basic things that other countries take for granted. It sort of feels like I pay tax twice. Once to the government which might as well be the money equivalent of /dev/null and another for private services which the municipality/government should be supplying, but what is offered is just too shitty to use.

So we may have the best purchasing power, but we have the least amount of money, so it doesn't help much.

[sangnoir]

> So we have to fork out so much cash for basic things that other countries take for granted

Yeah, can you believe how much more expensive domestic help has become? /s

I think the SA government's biggest sin is failing to grow the middle class. The inequality is a ticking time bomb