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He means a safe wage job pays a third less in the UK than Germany.

Not sure if it's true so let's look at some stats: Germany median for software engineer: €66,000 United kingdom median: €58,000

Note depending on source, these numbers both vary broadly within the same range, but with Germany salaries being about 10-15% higher on most sources, so nowhere near the figure claimed.

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10-15% is not hugely far from 1/3 ;)

You said that UK's salaries are 2/3 of the Germany ones, but this doesn't mean that the Germany ones are 1/3 more, they are 1/2 (or 50%) more. That's pretty far from 10-15%.

Oh sorry, then I didn't maths properly. I always forget about the asymmetry of fractions

EDIT: Please don't downvote me for admitting a mistake

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web...

No problem, it's a pretty common math/statistics trap that gets way more people than it should.

10-15% in the opposite direction. That is I stated they earn 10-15% more.

33% less equates to them earning roughly 50% more. The difference between 10-15% and 50% is huge!

(trivial example, if someone is earning £100,000, then someone earning 33% less makes £66,666. But Someone earning £100,000 makes 50% more than someone making £66,666)

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