It does not really make sense to compare "local costs" that way.
Especially if you do not even know if that is home consumer end price or an industrial price.

If you want to compare prices, you have to figure how much one for example can buy from a monthly wage.

Silly example, a good bottle of beer in Germany costs about 1EUR. Minimum wage per hour is ca. 1OEUR. After taxes let's say it is 5.
So for one hour working a simple job, you can buy 5 beers. Or a bit more than one gallon (3l) gasoline. Or 15kWh if electricity.

In Thailand a beer is much more expensive. But the bottle is a tick bigger. Let's say it is about 1.5OEUR per bottle.
Minimum wage is about 6 bottles per day.

Now let's turn this around and look at a beer price in a restaurant. The price doubles (actually it is less) in Thailand but goes up factor 5 or 6 in Germany. While a pub or bar in Thailand is a little bit more than double, but in Germany easy 10 times the super market prices.

Now we have the basics about the beer.

How many meals can a German (at minimum wage) buy for one day work?
Ca. 65,- money per day, yields about 5 or 6 meals (talking about simple meals at a random shop, not home cooked).
For a Thai the minimum wage yields about 8 meals.

I have no idea about the energy prices in China versus USA. However if it concerns you, you have to know how much you earn per energy unit produced/consumed.

Because 10 year old sweat shop workers are difficult to find.

Written by an idiot who does not know how "rare earth mining" (or probably any kind of mining) works.
Hint: it is not done by little children with a pickaxe, or a hammer and a chisel under ground in bad air, with collapsing rocks behind you and the fumes of candles in your face.

USA outsourced rate earth mining/refining/trade to the world market, because they wanted to Dave a dollar on the ton of material.
As China happens to have mining options where "the stuff just lies around", they literally simply shovel it into sacks and sell it on the world market. That's it.

In general "mining" rare earth is so simple: everyone can do it without violating any worker safety concerns or environmental issues.

In Germany we have geo thermal power plants that "mine lithium" as a side trade.

I've activated windows by phone a couple times though certainly not recently. The last time was 2020 or so.

I hope it works out for them, but I suspect they are shortly going to encounter the phrase "meet the new boss, same as the old boss". All of Maduro's people are still in place, and Trump has little incentive to try and remove them.

I'm pretty sure Trump's plan is to let Maduro's government (less Maduro and his wife, of course) continue doing everything exactly as they had been, as long as they give US oil companies access to the oil fields. Trump couldn't care less about drug trafficking or democracy or human rights; he just wants that sweet, sweet oil.

Well, for large values of 60, that is close, or not?

Only in a country where you use imperial units.'
At all other places on earth, the units are extremely unhandy.

No idea why you can not cope with the fact that a pint is 620ml, or 625ml or 630ml, what ever the vendor thinks a pint should be: and has printed it on that bottle.

After all you only buy a bottle of beer ...

And all other bottles are either 333ml, 250ml or 1000ml or 1500ml and in rare cases 2000ml.

There is never any reason to "divide the number" by any other number, and get "interesting simple" results.

When you make drought for a cake and need 250g flour, who funk cares into which numbers you can divide that, when it is about 0.55 of your pounds? You have a weight/scale. And you put flour into it, until you have what you want.

And if you think you go fancy and only make a quarter of it: then you damn calculate 250/4 which is roughly 62g ... every child can do that in his mind. Divide by 2 -> 125g, divide by 2 again, so simple.

No idea why Americans always come up with this "divisible" myth.

No one cares how base unit can be divided. Unless you are an American, obviously.

The year has roughly 360 days, hence we have a 360 degree circle.

Cut this into 4, gives you the 4 majour directions. Or 4 nice spots on a clock. Now the only question is: how to divide such a quarter. Basically every culture on the planet settled on dividing such a quarter into 3 segments. Hence we have 12 around the circle, and 12 hours (originally 12 double hours) and 12 months.

While some "esoteric" measure systems use 400 degrees (called gon) for a circle, in daily life of an astronomer or navigator: 360 is simply better. Because a star rising yesterday "over there" will rise today, on degree off. And tomorrow 2 degrees off. If the circle base was not 360, but an arbitrary number, like 660 ... the star positions would not be obvious by simply adding one degree each day.

Now as you have divided the sky into 360 degrees, it makes no sense to pick a different base for the planet, or circles. Splitting up the 360 degrees into 12 parts, is simply convenient. As it is close to ten, is easy to paint by hand, and so on. On top of that, plenty of places on earth have close to 12h daylight and 12h night ... so making the whole day 10 hours long, like the french tried, means your daylight is only 5hours. That basically means, sunrise and sunset and noon or midnight are at completely odd numbers.

The analog clock hanging there in the school room is hanging there probably since the school got opened ... and got never replaced.

Then multiple the minutes by 5.
I doubt anyone is doing that.
I do not read 3 times 5 when the big hand is on the 15. I read 15. Seriously?

The rest does not make any sense to me.

The racist problem was âoesolvedâ when we reduced every classroom down to the lowest common denominator with No Child Left Behind.
No one is believing that you actually did that.
Everything points to either:
- you have nearly no education
- the bar is much to high to make enough pass

Not being able to read the clock only means no one took the 5 minutes it takes to teach one how to do it. How can that be "lowest denominator"?

Well, they taught the alphabet - why not clocks?

My mother taught me reading the clock when I was about 3 ...
A few weeks ago I met a 25 year old, who could not read the clock (was my first time - did not think/know such people do exist).

Are dead. By the time they print, distribute them, it isn't "news". Internet/television has replaced dead tree papers. Surprised there are any of them still around, and I'm a boomer.