Salary only has meaning when contextualized against the cost of living. As a European, you don’t worry about going bankrupt and ending up on the street if you get sick, you likely enjoy functional public transit, and so on.
yeah we are basically at the forefront of EU neoliberal hell it’s still much better in some other states so I understand the impression but it’s really really bad here.
for sure. we’ve just been ruled by compradors to empire since gaining “independence” 100 or so years ago, so we’re total vassals to the US and carved out by yankee and british capital sadly
Salary only has meaning when contextualized against the cost of living. As a European, you don’t worry about going bankrupt and ending up on the street if you get sick, you likely enjoy functional public transit, and so on.
in ireland a lot of people do. contradictions around this stuff are probably worse here than anywhere else in western europe tho
I didn’t realize this wasn’t a uniquely American type of hell.
yeah we are basically at the forefront of EU neoliberal hell it’s still much better in some other states so I understand the impression but it’s really really bad here.
All the western countries are ultimately headed in the same direction, it’s just the rate of descent that’s different.
for sure. we’ve just been ruled by compradors to empire since gaining “independence” 100 or so years ago, so we’re total vassals to the US and carved out by yankee and british capital sadly