/int/ - International

Better question is, why a low income country like Brazil pays the highest?

>>30960 I just learned there are US states without sales tax. My euro brain can’t comprehend such a thing. Tell us more about life in Brazil.

We work way more hours per week, get way less vacation/sick time, and need our cheap electronic opium

They also pay more for Swiss pharmaceuticals than we do. I guess there are some deals between governments and their big companies.

>>30968 So you’re saying you earn more because you work more? But why do you pay less?

>>30968 tbh i work public sector but im also a nepo baby

Rather than pre-tax electronics why not look at the price for an actual apple. >making more money than Europeans The US has been in a wage-spiral for a long while now. Wages are high in service sectors where the cost has been passed on to consumers in higher prices and enshittification - but it's not been as noticeable when a strong USD has been used to export the difference with a trade balance along with anything that can be moved overseas while the fundamentals are foregone (medical services, houses, education) or it's just accepted that fresh products are expensive in the case of food. It's the same brick wall we're all facing in the developed world, you can afford constant slop from China you don't need or want which has been artificially pushing down its own wages and overproducing (due to its own systematic failure) but the big stuff you actually want like a home, a new car or being able to tell your boss to go fuck himself is out of reach without financial chicanery or gambling on internet coins. The cycle is at least coming to an end but I'm not sure if anyone is actually going to choose to forgo their short-term dopamine hits for a good life or for China to end the it's Soviet-era model of industrial production.

>>30976 Even with 10% sales tax, it’s still a lot less than European prices

>>30975 I like how the older that Bernd gets the more we all end up working in the public sector. I bet if you ran a poll it would be split between NEETS, students, academia and public sector. >>30977 UK sales tax is 20%. The remaining difference is hedging on currency difference, logistics and consumer rights. The wage difference is varied in Europe but it went from rough parity to decades of stagnation with the US dominating in tech and getting its shit more together following the GFC. But realistically is your life worse than a techbro who lives in a tent in San Francisco? Would your life actually be better in the US?

>>30960 I think braziu has inane taxes on electronics imports. I remember Bernds bitching about the price of consoles way back when.

okay

>>31056 >>30977 us sales tax is a joke

>>31057 yeah, 10% sales tax seems like an average around the US but you've got your answer here: VAT rates are mostly at least double in EU

Regardless, $1k on a phone is pretty mad. Normies are stupid.

>>31061 There's no alternative if you want an iphone

>>31065 as I say

> Companies price depending on what people are willing to pay and not what foreign people are paying /Thread

>>30990 For what reasons? Are they trying to protect a local industry? They don't manufacture anything.

>>30982 that's because the real economy is collapsing and the state props things up with public sector jobs

>>31153 > the real economy is collapsing we've been living in a system that reduces quality in order to enforce quantity. Planned obsolescence turned from a conspiracy theory into a corner stone of the real economy. Ads are constantly monitoring you while hypin you for the next shortly lived hype. prolly ~80% of our current "jobs" and "work" could be removed without any reduction in our economical quality of life. Who the fuck thought producing trash is a sign of quality?