>>60517644
You don't. We Europeans get the poverty treatment. Essentially, we have American wages. It's just that the government extorts so many taxes that we end up with 40k net a year. These days, bicycles are being normalized to free up space for the rich, confine us to the pod cities. Everything is managed by government bureaucrats. Germans now have to BEG their employer to RENT a bicycle FOR THEM, LIKE LITTLE KIDS. I am not joking, it is called "Jobrad". They make up all kinds of excuses why this is beneficial, but the truth is, German wagies are taxed into poverty, and have to ask their employer or the government for every action beyond breathing. Everything requires dozens of forms, licenses, audits and approvals, and of course it results in additional taxes every single time. The funny thing is that Germans don't even know about all these taxes, they think that inflation is a force of nature, not a tax on past income, for example. And they have thousands of different government fees, they don't want to understand that these are taxes, they are adamant to call them fees. Also, they don't count all the time they have to work to use unfinished legal products, the government forces them to do the tax work for free, mapping unfinished laws and policies, or paying tax consultants (essentially government workers) to do that work for them, which is just another tax. Another form of forced free work is to separate the household waste, they all have to do it for free, or they will get fined, another form of tax, this time to benefit the waste disposal companies who don't have to buy waste separation machines. They all have a regional monopoly, so they are effectively a part of the government, and they employ all the "inhabitants" in their region as free workers.
