Well, if you cherry-pick to compare UK only to US, then yeah it's lower wages, but the US is the global outlier here, not the UK. Almost any other country in t

Well, if you cherry-pick to compare UK only to US, then yeah it's lower wages, but the US is the global outlier here, not the UK. Almost any other country in the EU mainland(barring maybe Switzerland and Norway) is low wage compared to US. If you do a more realistic comparison, like UK to EU, wages are not low at all.