<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>MagnumOpus</author><text>FAANG stock price increases and the California startup bubble have increased money availability to the US software industry and massively inflated what coders cam earn there over the last 15 years. Eventually this has translated in raises across the US as other companies lost their best coders to FAANG (and MS and unicorns that pay six digits).&lt;p&gt;Europe remains fairly isolated from this effect because (a) not enough EU coders want to move to the US even at triple the salary to cause a shortage of coders there and (b) FAANG and US firms can get away with paying less in Europe because remote work is not yet quite equivalent to being on-prem in the US...</text><parent_chain><item><author>aantix</author><text>Why are software engineer salaries so low in Germany?</text></item><item><author>wjej333i2j</author><text>Meanwhile, in Germany grocery prices increased by ~14% * (not confuse with inflation) and there is little to none salary increase comparing to US...&lt;p&gt;An average software engineer in Germany only makes ~3000 euro per month after tax and even less in other European countries.&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.morgenpost.de&amp;#x2F;vermischtes&amp;#x2F;article233549815&amp;#x2F;aldi-lidl-rewe-edeka-kaufland-preise-supermarkt.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.morgenpost.de&amp;#x2F;vermischtes&amp;#x2F;article233549815&amp;#x2F;aldi-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/consumer-prices-inflation-c1bfd93ed1719cf0135420f4fd0270f9</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>engineeringwoke</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve worked in US and northern EU and in the latter there is basically no funding (relatively) and no talent feeders like FAANG. Senior engineers are also enamored with unnecessary complexity and founders still want to treat technical folks (even very senior) like cogs in a machine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>aantix</author><text>Why are software engineer salaries so low in Germany?</text></item><item><author>wjej333i2j</author><text>Meanwhile, in Germany grocery prices increased by ~14% * (not confuse with inflation) and there is little to none salary increase comparing to US...&lt;p&gt;An average software engineer in Germany only makes ~3000 euro per month after tax and even less in other European countries.&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.morgenpost.de&amp;#x2F;vermischtes&amp;#x2F;article233549815&amp;#x2F;aldi-lidl-rewe-edeka-kaufland-preise-supermarkt.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.morgenpost.de&amp;#x2F;vermischtes&amp;#x2F;article233549815&amp;#x2F;aldi-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>US consumer prices soared 7% in past year, most since 1982</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/consumer-prices-inflation-c1bfd93ed1719cf0135420f4fd0270f9</url></story>