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While you do not have to pay the benefits for social security while abroad, you could and it's not even that much. One pays around EUR 12k / year for social sec

While you do not have to pay the benefits for social security while abroad, you could and it's not even that much. One pays around EUR 12k / year for social security on a rather well payed software developer job (EUR 50k / year). Given a salary difference of a factor two or more, it is actually very much feasible to life and work in a US technology hub and pay for German social security. So the question "what the hell is wrong with economics" does remain.

ido 9y ago
If you think this is wrong, Poland is bordering Germany and has 1/3-1/2 the wages.
- gozur88 9y ago
  I think the answer to that conundrum is just that it takes a lot more time for things to even out than you'd think. It hasn't even been 30 years since the Soviet Union collapsed.