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So you are saying that HN-types got theirs (the huge salary), so they should not care about others? Or are you causing them of a "I got mine, fuck you" attitude? I am still not sure what you are trying to say. But the fact that you LEFT the US that has that kind of dynamic for Germany, where income inequality is smaller and many things -- including medicine -- are more widely accessible makes me scratch my head.



> So you are saying that HN-types got theirs (the huge salary), so they should not care about others? Or are you causing them of a "I got mine, fuck you" attitude?

Neither of those things, no. (Also, if you think of €100k as "a huge salary", you should recalibrate; in the industrialized world it is not.)

> I am still not sure what you are trying to say. But the fact that you LEFT the US that has that kind of dynamic for Germany, where income inequality is smaller and many things -- including medicine -- are more widely accessible makes me scratch my head.

The healthcare in Germany appears to be somewhat crap compared to the highest level of care available in the US. It's an order of magnitude cheaper, though.

I left the US because the US is a police state, not because best-in-the-world healthcare has highest-in-the-world prices.

My comment could best be summarized as "health care costs should not be a major concern in your life as a SWE because they will be cheap (to you) everywhere, so make your SWE life choices based on other things". You can inaccurately paraphrase this as a rejection of concern for social justice, income inequality, or a generalized "fuck you, got mine" at your own peril.

(FWIW, I think national boundaries are mostly irrelevant and unimportant, and drawing the boundary of your official-concern-for-the-wellbeing-of-others at an invisible line checkpoint to be somewhat closeminded. There are billions without meaningful modern healthcare access at all (or even clean water) so the selfrighteous indignation bit about the relative quality and expense of healthcare in two major industrialized western nations is sort of a silly nit to pick.)




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