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Re:Ask HN: Why do companies outside the US pay so much less? by tehlike on Monday February 06, 2017 @07:48PM (#13585914)
Devil's advocate: US economy, startups, and so on are stronger than that of Europe's.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do companies outside the US pay so much less? by astrange on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @12:12AM (#13587226)
Do we know which % of US states are doing better than Europe? I'm sure it's not all of them.

(I think we should measure virtue by carbon footprint/chance of horrible death/crime/etc and not by GDP.)

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Re:Ask HN: Why do companies outside the US pay so much less? by Broken_Hippo on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @05:39AM (#13588470)
That is really a weird blanket statement: Both places have their own weirdness.

You probably aren't going to do so well with a start-up in rural Mississippi or Indiana, mostly because folks don't have much money to spend on your wares, yet in some other areas it'll seem like they are doing well. Same thing with Europe. There are a lot of countries and economies and different regulations there and it is quite hard to compare with the overall thing.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do companies outside the US pay so much less? by tehlike on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @11:01AM (#13590193)
eh that's true for any country on its own. Each country has both developed & tech savy areas and less/savy areas.
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