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That's just a list of average salary by country.

Does it show which of these are "UNIONIZED European programmers" and how many are "NON-UNION Americans?" If not, we can dismiss the claim outright.

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>If not, we can dismiss the claim outright

All you can say at that point is "I'm too lazy to confirm or disprove it". If you want to disprove his statement for real, you're going to have to put in some effort looking things up.

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Nothing has been proved, it would be impossible to disprove. Stated without evidence, dismissed without it.