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Re:Shrinking Mississippi River Puts American Farm Trade at R... by s1artibartfast on Monday October 03, 2022 @07:18PM (#33074940)
Most of the reports I've seen site a few factors:

Availability of cheap skilled labor. Europe often sources it's cheap engineers and Trades workers from the East.

Inefficient regulatory Frameworks such as mandated workers to do nothing and an onerous environmental monitoring.

Political dysfunction and gridlock. Projects are often poorly conceived and continually change their design and intent over the course of a project.

Some of these might be considered Network effects I guess. If you don't build infrastructure, you don't have a healthy market for workers and companies with expertise

Re:Shrinking Mississippi River Puts American Farm Trade at R... by bombcar on Monday October 03, 2022 @09:11PM (#33075691)
Remember that US prices include health insurance, I’m not sure the EU ones do (for state-provided healthcare). I’m not sure how the account labor costs.
Re:Shrinking Mississippi River Puts American Farm Trade at R... by s1artibartfast on Monday October 03, 2022 @10:36PM (#33076177)
I don't think that's true. I think the costs are top line, before corporate and individual taxes, which would include any cost which go to socialized medicine in Europe.

As a separate question, I don't know that the European socialized Healthcare Services are paying for the migrant workers from Eastern countries that perform the work