On the other hand, an €80k salary also includes not going bankrupt if you dare get cancer or cost you $19k if you want to birth a baby, and also allows you to live in a place where there's decent public transportation so you don't need a car and all that stress if you don't want. It means not going $200k in debt to go to college. It means drug laws that are more aimed at harm reduction rather than moralizing. I'm sure there's others.