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How does this account for things like taxes and shifting of expenses?

It is common knowledge that in the USA, they will pay you extra in the corporate world, but that extra money goes to family health care, education, transport, and other things that are covered by European taxation schemes.

If you look at discretionary income, the median corporate employees are making similar incomes.

And of course, SWEs are outperforming in USA, and manual laborers are outperforming in EU

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I have not researched that until now but it appears the US is #3 for median disposable income behind Switzerland and Norway. If there’s a better metric I’m interested. However, I think it’s safe to say the typical US resident is not relatively impoverished. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per...