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I think you are undervaluing a lot the benefits of the European culture [1]. It's just not health care, it's also the safety of not being spontaneously fired,

• microcolonel 8y ago
  > It's just not health care, it's also the safety of not being spontaneously fired, the work-life balance, the vacation time, the paternity leave, and so on. These are all things you can buy in the U.S, it's mostly just that working people choose money over any of those things when they figure out what they cost. In much of Europe, the actual cost of these things is not visible to people with an "employee" mindset. When presented an honest bargain between these fringe benefits and their real cash value, the average American believes the federal reserve notes are worth more.
• reacharavindh 8y ago
  I didn't mean to undervalue the benefits. I need to communicate better. I only intended to state a part of the argument that US generally pays substantially more than Europe. There are many (including myself) that choose to stay in Europe in-spite of it, valuing other benefits such as (better healthcare, work-life balance, education, involved society, gun control etc). It still does not change the fact that US pays better, and that it would be better for Europe to do so as well if they want to attract top Engineers aways from US...