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So far, the average US workforce seems to be ok with working conditions that most Europeans would consider reasons to riot. So far I've not observed substantial

So far, the average US workforce seems to be ok with working conditions that most Europeans would consider reasons to riot. So far I've not observed substantial riots in the news. Apparently the threshold for low pay and poor treatment among non-knowledge-workers is quite low. I'm assuming the same is going to be true for knowledge workers once they can be replaced an mass.

ETH_start 1y ago
The average U.S. worker earns significantly more purchasing power per hour than the average European worker. The common narrative about U.S. versus EU working conditions is simply wrong.
- qwerpy 1y ago
  Agree. There’s no other place in the world where you can be a moderately intelligent person with moderate work ethic (and be lucky enough to get a job in big tech) and be able to retire in your 40s. Certainly not EU.
- ricardorivaldo 1y ago
  there is no "average worker", this is a statistical concept, life in europe is way better them in US for low income people, they have healthcare, they have weekends , they have public tranportation, they have schools and pre-schools , they lack some space since europe is full populated but overall, no low income (and maybe not so low) will change europe for USA anytime.
  - ETH_start 1y ago
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- theshackleford 1y ago
  This is some backwards logic if I ever saw it. “More money earned therefore conditions great” lol wat?
jensgk 1y ago
I would think that the MAGA movement is the riot.
- Muromec 1y ago
  It is, but it's a bolshevik kind of riot, not the good old one where you ask more rights for yourself
- vkou 1y ago
  MAGA think they are the temporarily embarrassed billionaires and once their enemies are liquidated, they'll be living in a utopia. I wouldn't expect them to come bail you out, or even themselves step off the conveyor belt.
- Seanambers 1y ago
  Trumps Playbook will actually work, so MAGA will get results. Tariffs will force productivity and salaries higher (and prices), then automation which is the main driver of productivity will kick in which lowers prices of goods again. Globalisation was basically the west standing still and waiting for the rest to catch up - the last to industrialise will always have the best productivity and industrial base. It was always stupid, but it lifted billions out of poverty so there's that. The effects will take way longer than the 3 years he has left, so he has oversold the effectiveness of it all. This is all assuming AGI isn't around the corner, the VLAs, VLM, LLM and other models opens up automation on a whole new scale. For any competent person with agency and a dream, this could be a true golden age - most things are within reach which before was locked down behind hundreds or thousand of hours of training and work to master.

ETH_start 1y ago

The average U.S. worker earns significantly more purchasing power per hour than the average European worker. The common narrative about U.S. versus EU working conditions is simply wrong.

qwerpy 1y ago
Agree. There’s no other place in the world where you can be a moderately intelligent person with moderate work ethic (and be lucky enough to get a job in big tech) and be able to retire in your 40s. Certainly not EU.
ricardorivaldo 1y ago
there is no "average worker", this is a statistical concept, life in europe is way better them in US for low income people, they have healthcare, they have weekends , they have public tranportation, they have schools and pre-schools , they lack some space since europe is full populated but overall, no low income (and maybe not so low) will change europe for USA anytime.
- ETH_start 1y ago
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theshackleford 1y ago
This is some backwards logic if I ever saw it. “More money earned therefore conditions great” lol wat?

jensgk 1y ago

I would think that the MAGA movement is the riot.

Muromec 1y ago
It is, but it's a bolshevik kind of riot, not the good old one where you ask more rights for yourself
vkou 1y ago
MAGA think they are the temporarily embarrassed billionaires and once their enemies are liquidated, they'll be living in a utopia. I wouldn't expect them to come bail you out, or even themselves step off the conveyor belt.
Seanambers 1y ago
Trumps Playbook will actually work, so MAGA will get results. Tariffs will force productivity and salaries higher (and prices), then automation which is the main driver of productivity will kick in which lowers prices of goods again. Globalisation was basically the west standing still and waiting for the rest to catch up - the last to industrialise will always have the best productivity and industrial base. It was always stupid, but it lifted billions out of poverty so there's that. The effects will take way longer than the 3 years he has left, so he has oversold the effectiveness of it all. This is all assuming AGI isn't around the corner, the VLAs, VLM, LLM and other models opens up automation on a whole new scale. For any competent person with agency and a dream, this could be a true golden age - most things are within reach which before was locked down behind hundreds or thousand of hours of training and work to master.