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[–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I also make a much higher salary than my SWE friends in the EU. But:

  • I've been at this for 25 years
  • grinding - my work-life balance is garbage compared to my European friends in SWE
  • regularly dealing with a fuckton of uncertainty
  • had my retirement completely gutted by my partner's cancer treatment
  • got my stock portfolio screwed up because of my significant ESPP; my theretofore trustworthy, reliable employer decided to sell to a private equity firm
  • get to travel very little and have to work when I do because of paltry PTO policies; and I get "generous" PTO compared to most of my US SWE peers; my PTO is decadent compared to most US proletariat

I could really go on. That great, yuuuuge, beautiful salary difference is deeply undercut to the point of collapse by everything all of the other costs (not just financial) that are co-requisite to working in the US.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah the actual numbers don't mean anything.

If you make $10k/month and have a hard time while somebody makes €2.5k/month and has a comfortable life, who is the richest?