Independent Income at later TL stages

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

That's a standard for 86 million people in Nigeria. It's not a good source of numbers for even the bottom rung of the ladder in games set in places that will remeble The US or Europe. Particularly for characters who will be shopping in HT or UT.

It's a perfectly fine figure for TL 3. The US will go a bit more expensive, even for homeless people eating in soup kitchens, because we don't think of giving people beans and gruel as adequate.