[estaseuropano]

Average gross salaries, IT is the second line.

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1789/umfrage/...

These are not stunning by US standards, but important to consider that life costs are very different, e.g. you get actually significantly less than this gross salary in your bank account but in return you have unemployment insurance, free school and university for your kids (or super cheap evening masters for you), health insurance with no significant deductibles (except dentistry), and a serious pension of which you can actually live once you're over 67. Hours are generally reasonable and social protections good, outside the worst quarters of the big cities you have a very safe environment, ...

All in all a good quality of life, but not eye watering salaries.

[frockington1]

If you are a developer in the US you are probably receiving all of that except college tuition. Worth the extra 60K/year in my opinion but I see the appeal of having the option to live off of social programs if needed

[kazen44]

it is also not about you being able to afford those things. It is about the rest of society and the people around you also being able to afford those things. To allow people from poor backgrounds to go to university and contribute on the intellectual level they posses, it is so that people working on some of the nasties and most dangerous jobs that still require doing. (heavy industry, most healthcare jobs) can live without the desperation of poverty.

Some people might simply not be in the luck in regards to intelligency, luck, wealth etc compared to you, but that does not mean they should be held back by it in my opinion.