I travel to the UK, France, and Germany multiple times per year to meet with customers and suppliers.
If you add up funding my own retirement, paying for my private health insurance, paying for my kids to go to (state) university, having to have two evil automobiles, and paying the electric bill on my palatial manor (4-bdrm rancher with garage shed and large backyard), and subtract all of those expenses from my income I >>>STILL<<< make so much more money than anyone sitting across the table from me in Europe that I might as well be Mansa Musa the Golden King of Mali and them a homeless bum starving to death under a bridge.
It is my impression that most of the people moving to the EU are "entrepreneurs" with app ideas or "digital nomads" who want to run a social media campaign from MacBook in a cafe while engineers and scientists who want to work on cool stuff and have labs with a budget big enough to buy test gear and do something keep trying to score a US visa.
Let’s chat after you receive your first astronomical out-of-network health insurance bill or experience the joy of joining the 30% of health claims routinely denied by U.S. insurance companies....Unless, of course, you’re a VP of something. In that case, your effort to pass yourself off as the quintessential 'regular Joe' is comedy gold.
High earners in America has it much better when it comes to healthcare than most Europeans. Public system means you (as a high earner) are paying a lot (because in most EU countries it's based on % of your income) and you still wait in the same line, often for years even when it comes to procedures you can't function without.
I paid more for my public health insurance than some of the most premium plans in US and I still needed to pay out of pocket when my cervical spine gave up and I was in pain for months. I would need to wait 2-3 years to get it done by public healthcare even though I contributed to it 20x what an average earner has.
There is no chance EU attracts any kind of talent with policies like those. Maybe Switzerland (reasonable taxes and health insurance independent of your income) or countries like Cyprus. Old EU is all about sucking out all you produce and giving it to others. Great deal if you are a pensioner or government worker, not so much when you are someone who can generate a lot of income yourself.
Cancer is either treatable or not. You either get cured or you die, and I don't care if I die broke. If it is curable I'll pay for it. If it is incurable, I'll go broke: so what?
That being said if I lived in Europe I'd have to hope that a football star is willing to auction his shoes to fund my trip to the US for treatment and I don't want that.
> That being said if I lived in Europe I'd have to hope that a football star is willing to auction his shoes to fund my trip to the US for treatment and I don't want that.
Generally, most of these cases where people are raising money to travel for treatment are about... dubious treatment which your insurance probably doesn't cover either. Evidence-based cancer treatment is of course available in Europe.
>It sounds like your employer could save a lot of costs by hiring remote workers in the countries you mentioned.
Payroll is one of the smaller slices of the expense pie when it comes to space.
It would be extremely challenging to find engineers with the experience needed for mission assurance in the numbers needed to maintain our output.
The output, in terms of serial-numbered subassemblies, of my organization (a small team in a small division of a single American company I am almost certain most of you have never even heard of) exceeded the total production of every single EU space firm combined.
It's like how semiconductor production lines in the US have to import experts from Taiwan to get them running and it takes years and years and billions in government subsidies: experience matters.
spoken like a true american good boy born into corporate slavery who was taught (good job learning though) that your life is defined by slaving away in “multinational engineering firm” and the more money you have the more penis-measuring contests you will win… :)
My employer is a multinational engineering firm.
I travel to the UK, France, and Germany multiple times per year to meet with customers and suppliers.
If you add up funding my own retirement, paying for my private health insurance, paying for my kids to go to (state) university, having to have two evil automobiles, and paying the electric bill on my palatial manor (4-bdrm rancher with garage shed and large backyard), and subtract all of those expenses from my income I >>>STILL<<< make so much more money than anyone sitting across the table from me in Europe that I might as well be Mansa Musa the Golden King of Mali and them a homeless bum starving to death under a bridge.
It is my impression that most of the people moving to the EU are "entrepreneurs" with app ideas or "digital nomads" who want to run a social media campaign from MacBook in a cafe while engineers and scientists who want to work on cool stuff and have labs with a budget big enough to buy test gear and do something keep trying to score a US visa.
Let’s chat after you receive your first astronomical out-of-network health insurance bill or experience the joy of joining the 30% of health claims routinely denied by U.S. insurance companies....Unless, of course, you’re a VP of something. In that case, your effort to pass yourself off as the quintessential 'regular Joe' is comedy gold.
High earners in America has it much better when it comes to healthcare than most Europeans. Public system means you (as a high earner) are paying a lot (because in most EU countries it's based on % of your income) and you still wait in the same line, often for years even when it comes to procedures you can't function without.
I paid more for my public health insurance than some of the most premium plans in US and I still needed to pay out of pocket when my cervical spine gave up and I was in pain for months. I would need to wait 2-3 years to get it done by public healthcare even though I contributed to it 20x what an average earner has.
There is no chance EU attracts any kind of talent with policies like those. Maybe Switzerland (reasonable taxes and health insurance independent of your income) or countries like Cyprus. Old EU is all about sucking out all you produce and giving it to others. Great deal if you are a pensioner or government worker, not so much when you are someone who can generate a lot of income yourself.
>In that case, your effort to pass yourself off as the quintessential 'regular Joe' is comedy gold.
I, an individual contributor, have the same HDHP that the CEO does-- with maxxed-out HSA of course.
Your maxxed-out HSA will not save you if cancer comes.
You're still gambling.
Nothing can save me if cancer comes.
Cancer is either treatable or not. You either get cured or you die, and I don't care if I die broke. If it is curable I'll pay for it. If it is incurable, I'll go broke: so what?
That being said if I lived in Europe I'd have to hope that a football star is willing to auction his shoes to fund my trip to the US for treatment and I don't want that.
> That being said if I lived in Europe I'd have to hope that a football star is willing to auction his shoes to fund my trip to the US for treatment and I don't want that.
Generally, most of these cases where people are raising money to travel for treatment are about... dubious treatment which your insurance probably doesn't cover either. Evidence-based cancer treatment is of course available in Europe.
It sounds like your employer could save a lot of costs by hiring remote workers in the countries you mentioned.
Nevertheless, I work in the US and cannot afford the things you listed.
>It sounds like your employer could save a lot of costs by hiring remote workers in the countries you mentioned.
Payroll is one of the smaller slices of the expense pie when it comes to space.
It would be extremely challenging to find engineers with the experience needed for mission assurance in the numbers needed to maintain our output.
The output, in terms of serial-numbered subassemblies, of my organization (a small team in a small division of a single American company I am almost certain most of you have never even heard of) exceeded the total production of every single EU space firm combined.
It's like how semiconductor production lines in the US have to import experts from Taiwan to get them running and it takes years and years and billions in government subsidies: experience matters.
But many can ...
spoken like a true american good boy born into corporate slavery who was taught (good job learning though) that your life is defined by slaving away in “multinational engineering firm” and the more money you have the more penis-measuring contests you will win… :)
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