Might be, sure. But we have social security, lower costs of living and stuff like that. We need to compare real compensation plus other soft factors like happin

Might be, sure. But we have social security, lower costs of living and stuff like that. We need to compare real compensation plus other soft factors like happiness, feeling of security etc. Also talking about the top 1% is not that interesting, because most companies behaving like they are FAANG just aren't FAANG ;) /edit: but I agree that wages need to increase in Europe overall for developers!