Switzerland has great workers rights plus salaries slightly below the median (in tech), but way higher for most other professions. Overall much better distributed wealth. Here you're easily getting 120k+ for regular tech jobs in your 30ies.

How people can (still) be in favor of hustle culture and work for companies that actively prevent unions and live in societies that encourage unequalness to such a great extend is beyond my understanding.

> great benefits

You mean health insurance or pension plans? :-)

> and make 2+ times as much as tech workers in the EU do.

Phew, what is the purpose of this 2x salary, if you don't have time or energy to use it. To raise another generation of busy burnoutees? Or to buy benefits the European takes for granted?

From what I see, Europe actually has the opposite trend for switching to the 4-day workweek, instead of working hard @ buying big houses and cars.

Maybe in terms of numbers but a huge amount of people I met in Silicon Valley with great pay and benefits seemed to be depressed.

what about the gap in disposable:

- income (factoring COL, insurance, and other budget items)?

- free-time (time off, work schedule)?