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Re:German government comes out against Chat Control by j-krieger on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @10:53AM (#45516861)
> Believe it or not, but for multi-national companies job offers in France are smaller for this very reason: you have a fixed budget to hire an employee, you subtract the "employers contributions" and calculate the gross salary you can offer in various countries where you have legal entities.

This! It's hard for me how some people can't see this.

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Re:German government comes out against Chat Control by gambiting on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @10:56AM (#45516915)
We can see it, it's obvious that the system in France(and other EU countries) works this way, it's just not really relevant when talking about salary. When I sign an employment contract for 100k euro that's my income. The fact that the employer then has to pay another 40k or 100k or a 1M euro on top of it to keep me employed is not really relevant because it's not my salary - it's their cost to keep me employed. The main proof being in two things

1) like I asked you in another comment - if that contribution was removed, I'm sure you wouldn't feel like you got a paycut.

2) if that did happen, your employer wouldn't magically decide to give that money to you instead, right? It is not and never was your income.

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