I’m sorry to disappoint you but the EU is unable to create any usable alternatives to US tech chiefly due to lack of SWE talent (among other things). Anyone remotely competent sees the 40k senior SWE salaries offered by European tech companies and immediately crawls through glass just to work at a mid-tier company in the Northern California area of the United States.

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lenkite 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Once they pay "modern" US health insurance (esp after a layoff) and also need to raise a family, the vast majority will crawl back through lava.

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tt24 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Still no - PPP (that’s after expenses such as food, healthcare, housing, etc) is significantly higher in the United States.

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lenkite 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I believe that would be true (after food, housing, healthcare, taxes, child-care, etc) only for a very narrow band of senior SWE's. And you are still not considering employment protection. And for junior or mid-level SWE's, not at all true for the overwhelming majority.

	▲	tt24 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is true not only for SWEs, but for the median worker in the United States.