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All those averages say very little about the situation. The country has a very stable middle class, salted with high-skilled and/or high net-worth German immigr

All those averages say very little about the situation. The country has a very stable middle class, salted with high-skilled and/or high net-worth German immigrants, while the US has super rich people, very poor people and everything in between. So the average does say very little about a college educated white-collar worker. Switzerland is also a tiny country that would be a tiny state in the US but is still segmented in kantons that each have their own tax system and negotiate individual tax deals with super rich immigrants. I am not an expert on the Swiss tax system, but based upon my anecdotal knowledge about these individual tax-deals I doubt that these numbers are universal. They each apply only to a small number of people, remember Switzerland is tiny and you compare a subset of it with all of the US. To make this comment a bit less negative: Everything else aside from the numbers and about the cultural differences in working environments is quite interesting. I enjoy to read outside views about your own culture or even other cultures.

olewhalehunter 11y ago
Switzerland has also been a parasite on European finance since the renaissance and especially since the Treaty of Paris in 1815, every outcome of Germanic squabbles ending in unpaid damages and debts to other European peoples from the Hussite war to World War II has ended in Germanic warlords fleeing to Switzerland with their wealth, laundering their finances into the black hole of the Swiss economy and banking system, then conveniently shrugging "Switzerland is neutral ground, sorry" to avoid any responsibility in European politics.
eonw 11y ago
it would be interesting to see the break down of the wealth housed in Switzerland based on nationality of its owner. I know a number of notable Germans have gone there, but i would imagine other countries have as well, in fairly large numbers also.

olewhalehunter 11y ago

Switzerland has also been a parasite on European finance since the renaissance and especially since the Treaty of Paris in 1815, every outcome of Germanic squabbles ending in unpaid damages and debts to other European peoples from the Hussite war to World War II has ended in Germanic warlords fleeing to Switzerland with their wealth, laundering their finances into the black hole of the Swiss economy and banking system, then conveniently shrugging "Switzerland is neutral ground, sorry" to avoid any responsibility in European politics.

eonw 11y ago

it would be interesting to see the break down of the wealth housed in Switzerland based on nationality of its owner. I know a number of notable Germans have gone there, but i would imagine other countries have as well, in fairly large numbers also.