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This comment is basically "how about America stop competing". If your country isn't competitive for tech or any other worker, then it's a problem with your coun
by 0xy 6y ago
This comment is basically "how about America stop competing". If your country isn't competitive for tech or any other worker, then it's a problem with your country.
I have zero sympathy for European tech workers who complain about the dramatically lower salaries they receive while they simultaneously vote for giant governments which levy effective tax rates of 50%+ on them.
Now that the UK is leaving the EU, the EU is one of the worst places for tech in the world from the perspective of the employee. This only serves to benefit the US, Switzerland, the UK and other countries supporting their industries rather than crushing them with ridiculous regulatory burdens (GDPR and others).
If you have brain drain, it's 100% because your country is not competitive.
- randompwd 6y agoThe tax rates are on the gross salary. Those tax rates help lessen inequality. Europeans aren't complaining about their net income. They're complaining about their gross income. > supporting their industries rather than crushing them with ridiculous regulatory burdens (GDPR and others Ah, I see. This was an irrational rant with 0 critical thinking put in to it. edited to address: > levy effective tax rates of 50%+ on them. Effective is what people actually pay. No software engineer in any European country has an effective tax rate of 50%. With progessive(staggered) tax rates & pension relief, most would end up with ~30-35% tax rate. 50% is charged on money over x, everything below x is at lower rates so your _effective_ tax rate is not 50%.