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Yes, not for themselves but for society. If you like the way Germany, The Netherlands, and the Nordics do things, you should know that these countries have very
by chrismealy 9y ago
Yes, not for themselves but for society. If you like the way Germany, The Netherlands, and the Nordics do things, you should know that these countries have very high levels of union membership, up to 80%. Their broad labor movements created the societies they have today. Unions in America never had that much strength and never accomplished as much.
- tajen 9y agoIt's not only membership levels, it's cleverness. In France unions are often explicitly anticapitalist. There's little you can do to work with them. Most people believe their pay could be doubled without harming the company, because there's a stash somewhere [1]. Whereas in Germany, unions seem to have a clever dialogue with employers. Probably most people have been educated to economics, in a pro-capitalist way? [1] Ironically they're not so wrong: Because of our mandatory contributions, our compound tax rate is 63%.
- logicchains 9y agoYet pay for software developers in those companies is so much less than for those in America.
- AsyncAwait 9y agoIf you account for rent in SF and healthcare, I am not sure it is so much less.