[908B64B197]

Is it really luck?

Where's the European phone, the European OS. European Cloud? ChatGPT?

American engineers and companies provide the bulk of tech's value added.

> Whereas in Europe we're lucky to get $80k in the same jobs, and then the state steals half of that :/

Are those really the same jobs?

[UncleMeat]

Europeans work at all of these companies.

[rcarmo]

And they either moved to the US or are putting up with earning less than half what their US counterparts do.

[UncleMeat]

Sure. But if you want to complain that europeans don't build these sorts of products as some sort of reason why they should expect lower pay, you need to engage with the fact that people living and working in europe are building these products.

[rcarmo]

That's not happening on equal terms.