It's true for all countries and not just Europe from what I know. However, for people who espouse these ideas, being paid well is irrelevant. Their concern is t

It's true for all countries and not just Europe from what I know. However, for people who espouse these ideas, being paid well is irrelevant. Their concern is that nobody else is being paid more than them. I think it's a type of personality: some people measure success in absolute terms ("I have a nice house, nice food and my children get bright future, I am happy") and others measure success only in relation to their "rivals" ("I live in trailer but my neighbors live in mud huts, I eat cat food but my neighbors eat actual cats, my children go to community college but my neighbor's go to prison, I am happy").