[hernandipietro]

Innovation at the expense of crushing workers and increasing the gap between parasitic management compensation and worker wages. No, thanks. Europe may need reform but it’s not the USA way of doing things, except for the elite for which “ the economist “ is a already known and tired sockpuppet.

[Akranazon]

Why do you think software engineers in the US are paid twice as much as software engineers in Europe? Is it because US is better at crushing workers?

[mentalfist]

Because their cost of living is insane, the social safety net is shitty, labor protections nonexistent, and they don't get any holidays, among other factors

[Akranazon]

Almost none of this is true.

Labor protections are indeed less, but this is actually a good thing. Like with many free-market topics, "labor protections" are a very dangerous thing, because they are a policy that sounds extremely good to the voting public, but many economists can tell you it's actually bad. US just got lucky, that it tricked the public to vote against it.

[spwa4]

The pay difference is not a factor 2. You are paid 300-400% more than in the EU easily in the US, and the difference grows if you compare net pay vs before-tax. Cost of living bay area vs center Paris is a wash. Hell, I'd say the food is actually cheaper in the US. Frankly, unless you know your way around to avoid tourist places, food is cheaper and better in the US compared to center of Paris, although I'll agree that if you look around you can find much better in Paris than in the Bay Area.

And if you're employed, especially as a SWE, medical care is better in the US. If you're not ... EU >>> US.

[oklahomasports]

Why do you need to reference the USA? Makes it seem like your politics are based on resentment and not a dispassionate discussion of tradeoffs

[latexr]

The entire point of the article is to compare Europe to the USA. Even the illustration at the top makes that point immediately obvious and unambiguous.

[oklahomasports]

The comment I replied to is clearly emotionally engaged by that aspect of it

[aswerty]

The article image is literally the USA with a jetpack and Europe with a ball and chain. So it seems self evident why somebody might reference the US.

[only-one1701]

Read the first 3 lines of the article, my man.

[Scarblac]

The part of the article I can read is about a contrast between the US and Europe.