[FirmwareBurner]

I never said the EU is a country (nor does it need to be to fulfill my point), but as an economic block, if it wishes to compete with the US in terms of economy and innovation, it needs to do better in terms of labor mobility, and the current status quo is holding it back.

I hope my point of what I originally meant is clear now and you don't need to explain anymore about why the EU is not a country like the US.

[lm28469]

It's completely possible in theory, just very hard in practice.

It's an economical alliance, not a federation, each country has different tax, social security, pension, health insurance, labor laws, &c. all of them are as complex as your home country's one, but now you have to deal with them in a foreign language, and your employer hr has to deal with them too

It's just much easier to relocate or hire a local than to play this game for a nomad tech bro that will stay 2 years before jumping to his next adventure

So yes you seem to acknowledge the reality that the EU is composed of different countries but you don't seem to grasp the complexity of the consequences

[FirmwareBurner]

>just very hard in practice

Yes it is, by design. And why aren't we(the EU) trying to make it easier?

>It's just much easier to relocate or hire a local

Is it? Then what about the famous "m'uh labor shortage" employers are crying about? If they'd be open and have simpler ways to hire people remotely from other EU memebrs, their labor shortages could be over.

Phisical relocation of people/families across countries just for a job that can be done remotely, is also a huge PITA for the environment due to all the back and forth traveling between home country and work country people do, and for the housing market, not to mention for the family unit and communities loosing people having to uproot themveles just to press keys on a laptop but only if done inside the right EU country for the same souless corporation. Do I need to state even more benefits of easy EU wide remote work would bring or is the silliness of the current EU status quo beginning to sink in?

>but you don't seem to grasp the complexity of the consequences

Oh I know the complexities very well, but that was not my point. My point was: why aren't we(the EU) fighting to reduce or emliminate those complexities in order to imporve labor mobility which would help reduce labor shortages and also improve the job prospects of people who can't relocate due to family or whatever personal reasons?

[lm28469]

> why aren't we(the EU) fighting to reduce or emliminate those complexities

Because, again, the EU is composed of different countries with different laws/culture/opinions/&c. we can't agree on most things do you think it's just a matter of "want". Again it's an economical alliance not a federation, if we wanted a federation we'd have a federation

You seem to imagine this is a detail but it really isn't one. Labor laws didn't materialise out of thin air in anno domini 2024, there are hundreds of years of inertia. The ultra privileged "laptop class" making 2-5x the min wage of their respective country's wage isn't a top priority for our overlords in Bruxelles