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Really? To me it seems like the US has a higher disposable income per household (after taxes) [1]: US ~41k, Switzerland ~36k, France ~30k and Germany ~32k [1]
by leipert 9y ago
Really? To me it seems like the US has a higher disposable income per household (after taxes) [1]:
US ~41k, Switzerland ~36k, France ~30k and Germany ~32k
[1]: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/income/ http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/income/
- jsemrau 9y agoI would say it's the distribution that matters. https://data.oecd.org/chart/4VMU https://data.oecd.org/chart/4VMU
- pera 9y agoIn Argentina and Brazil taxes are so high that it's often cheaper to travel to the US just to buy a laptop like a MBP (for instance, the cheapest touch bar model is about $3k USD). And to give some perspective: the average salary over there is ~10 times lower than here in the US.