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Re:The Old Are Eating the Young by Perseids on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @06:25AM (#14551734)
While you do not have to pay the benefits for social security while abroad, you could and it's not even that much. One pays around EUR 12k / year for social security on a rather well payed software developer job (EUR 50k / year). Given a salary difference of a factor two or more, it is actually very much feasible to life and work in a US technology hub and pay for German social security. So the question "what the hell is wrong with economics" does remain.
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Re:The Old Are Eating the Young by ido on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @08:35AM (#14552236)
If you think this is wrong, Poland is bordering Germany and has 1/3-1/2 the wages.
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Re:The Old Are Eating the Young by gozur88 on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @01:54PM (#14554566)
I think the answer to that conundrum is just that it takes a lot more time for things to even out than you'd think. It hasn't even been 30 years since the Soviet Union collapsed.
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