<HTML>Brian, Big Macs must be expensive in the UK.  I don't even know what they = go for here, given that I  haven't eaten one in many years.   Perhaps we could use arms and legs as units, since that's acceptable to = the Internal Revenue Service...:-) Dave Stahl In a message dated 7/4/04 12:32:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ptg@pianote= ch.org writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-= LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> Hi Jim, I'll start a discussion with you, as I'm not in the US so we are therefore not coluding about local prices. I once wrote of comparing Big Mac as a unit of value against the tuning ie., here I can buy about 20 for my tuning fee.   With that, d= oing just 3 a day I make a decent living. How many Big Macs do you get for your fee? Brian Jim Kinnear jim@pianoguy.com Sat, 3 Jul 2004 17:05:12 -0400 I think there is certainly a lot of anxiety about this topic . . . Don't you think the gas companies, etc engage in this sort of thing when= all the stations in a row are  almost the same price . .  or is th= at just the market . .  and what about unions when they remove the employers ri= ght / option to pay different wages by refusing to work unless an employers pa= ys them all the same . .  isn't that price ( of labour ) fixing. Come on folks, a bit of information shared is hardly 'price fixing' The topic could certainly do with some discussion, \ . . . Jim </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>