Comment by ilikehurdles

Leaving your 20s and 30s with a career you enjoy, basic benefits such as health insurance, retirement funding, and paid time off, and the ability to afford a reasonably sized home without falling into tremendous amounts of debt seems less and less likely each year. I have a lot of family who have moved from the EU to the US and back to the EU, I have also lived there myself, and I'm intimately familiar with their day-to-day. If the average American knew what the benefits and lifestyle are like for a middle-class German family, all those totally disconnected accolades about job and GDP growth that our oligarchs like to shower upon us would do nothing to prevent work strikes and riots in the streets.