gizmodolt - Slashdot User

Comment Costs a bit more than it sounds (Score 1) 92

by gizmodolt on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @10:25PM (#36445350) Attached to: Malaysian Gov't Spends $600,000 On 6 Facebook Pages

It is indeed true that you need to spend money to make money but perhaps I should put the value of these figures into a Malaysian perspective:
1 USD is currently 3.03 MYR. The figure is 1.8 Million MYR, in a country where a Big Mac costs 6.95 MYR (2.23 USD). Yay, low cost of living.

A mid-level Malaysian web developer might get paid around 3,000 MYR (990 USD) a month, so 11,880 USD is my estimate for his/her salary, not 30,000 USD as estimated elsewhere. If all that cost went into development (as an over-simplification), this translates to 600 man-months of work. A team of 60 developers for 10 months, or a team of 10 developers for 5 years? Hmm.

I can only speak for myself, but I believe the issue most of their citizens have with this is the apparent 'inefficiency', rather than the actual initiative to investment in tourism.

Submission + - Malaysian Gov. spends $600,000 on 6 Facebook pages (freemalaysiatoday.com)

Submitted by gizmodolt on Tuesday June 14, 2011 @09:11AM

gizmodolt writes: The entrenched Malaysian governing party, Barisan Nasional, has spent almost $600,000 on six Facebook pages promoting tourism in the country. This has sparked criticism from opposition parties, decrying the "ridiculous" reasoning behind this waste of taxpayer funds and garnered widespread recrimination from Malaysians around the globe, who have made their sentiments known, quite publicly, on those very same Facebook pages.

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