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Healthcare sucks in USA.
Everything else is fine. If you pay 100k usd for your degree but make 2x youll pay it well over in the next 30 years of your work life.
Cars are much cheaper. Fuel is cheaper. Housing is mixed. WFH is easier in USA so you can livr somewhere cheap. Food is cheaper usually.
Ive been hearing we get a lot of things in Europe but other than healthcare I fail to see what we get. I still have my private pension as the public one I cant live on for example even though I pay close to 50% in taxes. Healthcare is free and great thsts true but thsts it.
I think you have a misconception of what is like here in America. Everything else is not fine here. You aren't realizing the huge lack of safety nets and the inability to get basic funding for anyone that has no money.
That 100k loan has interest. You don't get that 200k job right out of college. You only get that if you are extremely talented, lucky, or know rich people. The vast majority of programmers here make much less and when you take out health insurance are making about the same as what you make in Europe.
Meanwhile, you have to find a way to buy a car here because you will literally die here with out one. You find a way to buy a junker for 5k (that's what they go for here). Your car breaks down after a month on the job. You just missed a day at work that they fired you for it. Now you have to find whatever job you can quick because you all have to pay that school loan, rent, food, and car repair bill. The sheer amount of financial parasites here is staggering.
The US companies still pay quite more in Europe and not only the FAANG ones.
All these benefits come out of my taxes. The before taxes salary is still higher in USA for most people. Whether your government is inefficient is another question but your companies pay more even here.
You are correct, we do on average make more here. I just don't think you realize the extent of financial parasites in talking about. I'm not just talking about government taxes. I'm talking about constant, consistent payments you have to do for being poor here for everything. There's no accountability for proper business conduct here unless you have money.