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Here’s the thing… I remember some years back that (I think it was) Denmark had the best educated population or the most college degrees or some such, so your cashier or barista could very easily have a college degree.
The difference is that they get paid far better than retail in the US, get all the benefits of social policy, and from unionization. Vacation time, health care, maternity leave, etc. that retail positions in the US would be highly unlikely to have. I’m sure there’s some social stratification to blue collar positions vs white collar in such a country, but I’m sure it takes a lot of the sting out of it when you’re taking your two weeks vacation on the mediterranean coast.
I live in Austria, where it's not even quite as nice (well, similar benefits, but no federal minimum wage). It's deeply engrained in our culture that education doesn't have to be prep for a job. I personally know many people who pursue or have completed uni education that's completely unrelated to their like of work. Some have degrees in other areas, some don't. We have some pretty 'bad' statistics for how long People take to finish their degrees because people are, like, full time kindergarten teachers and taking 10 years to do a political science degree on the side purely because it interests them. People value education for its own sake and I love it. Unfortunately though, capitalism has this culture on the decline, and not even that long after education became open to most people.
No minimum wage, but we do have collective bargaining, for anyone who's interested.
I would rather have a citizens income than a minimum wage and would prefer a maximum wage (highest paid cannot be more than 100x lowest paid)
Yes, thanks for adding :) but there's industries where the minimum wage is still under 10€.
Yeah, it's not exactly a worker's utopia here, for sure, but at least there's some raise every year that my employer wouldn't otherwise give me if not for collective bargaining.