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> I think that overall in Europe, there is a much less steep income curve as you advance your career, skills, or education. This is good for the majority of peo
by deathanatos 11y ago
> I think that overall in Europe, there is a much less steep income curve as you advance your career, skills, or education. This is good for the majority of people, but bad for your typical HN'er.
I don't understand; how is this good for the majority of people?
- coldtea 11y agoBecause the median is kept higher than in the US, where some people earn shitloads, but a large percentage of the population takes the short end of the stick. This has several benefits outside of money: more integrated and coherent society (no "white trash" next to yuppies), less homeless people, less incarcerations and violent crimes due to being poor/uneducated/without future/etc. And more people thinking as part of the whole of their country/society, as opposed to "screw others, I just need to get to the top myself". That said, some advanced countries, like Britain and (less so) France, do resemble the US more, compared to say Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, Italy, etc.