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		hippich on Aug 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and it... What surprised me - average salary of $90k+. Does someone have any insight what this country produce to be able to pull of such pretty significant wages?

hippich on Aug 2, 2015 [–]

It also appears that this $90k+ is less than GDP per capita - https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&... which is really weird.

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