But every time I travel to Europe for work and meet working professionals, I'm amazed at their benefits and their taken-for-granted job security and social security, and huge paid time off allowance including maternity and paternity leave. I believe that in Germany, union factory workers only have 30 hours/week.
My only point being that you can't compare standard of living based on salary alone. Yes, we have higher salaries and much bigger houses, but we also have bigger bills, insane medical costs and a host of other things that detract from our quality of life.
And yeah, in the US we've subsidized the rest of the world for far too long, with our blood, sweat and labor by working more. We're due for some payback.
Agreed.
But every time I travel to Europe for work and meet working professionals, I'm amazed at their benefits and their taken-for-granted job security and social security, and huge paid time off allowance including maternity and paternity leave. I believe that in Germany, union factory workers only have 30 hours/week.
My only point being that you can't compare standard of living based on salary alone. Yes, we have higher salaries and much bigger houses, but we also have bigger bills, insane medical costs and a host of other things that detract from our quality of life.
And yeah, in the US we've subsidized the rest of the world for far too long, with our blood, sweat and labor by working more. We're due for some payback.