>Now I’m making 2-3x more after taxes than my German friends. Yes, I’m self employed and yes I’ll need to take care of my own retirement but I’ll be better off

>Now I’m making 2-3x more after taxes than my German friends. Yes, I’m self employed and yes I’ll need to take care of my own retirement but I’ll be better off after 1-2 years of putting $100k in ETFs than they could ever be with their state pensions. It's just means you're in a way more privilege Position as a dev in Poland than devs in Germany, but how does that look at scale, is the average Pole also much better off than the average German? >The taxes will kill the old Europe. Sure, but taxes also pay for infrastructure, healthcare and education which a country needs to flourish. Those high German taxes also contributed to the EU budget out of which Poland has been the highest net beneficiary over the years. How would Poland look today in those areas without the EU money from German taxpayers, and, if every Polish worker was a tax-evading ..err..sorry I mean tax-optimzing IT worker like yourself? What you're advocating is basically "fuck you I got mine, time to kick the ladder down now" as in you enjoyed the benefits of someone else's high taxes to grow but now that you've made it big, are against high taxes, and that my friend doesn't scale, nor build a successful society long term unless you're some small tax heaven country or bracing for rampant wealth and income inequality which I assume is starting to happen in Poland.