* https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/07/22/amazon-gi...
At best all you can say is that if you decide to hire, it cannot be lower than some minimum, but often this results in no job at all.
If you look at the disposable income numbers, the picture is quite different.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/disposabl...
Doesn’t feel objective.
alephnerd•51m ago
If this was true, then the Eurozone crisis would not have been as severe as it was in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, and France - all countries with broad and large social assistance programs.
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Also, the HN title is editorialized, the correct title is "Who the welfare state protects shapes a country’s financial openness"
mono442•15m ago
The ECB could have brought government bond yields down from the beginning and most of the problems could have been avoided.
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gruez•2m ago
Is that sustainable? Argentina's predicament is basically caused by a variant of this. The Peronists gave handouts to buy votes, funded by money printing (ie. "The ECB could have brought government bond yields down"), but that has consequences and turned Argentina into an economic basket case. Of course, you might argue the EU doesn't have this problem because it's stronger economically and other states can prop them up, but that begs the question, why should member countries like Germany fund Southern Europeans's fiscal profligacy?
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nickff•4m ago