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		toyg on Jan 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Germany is able to run the world’s second larg... This. I stopped reading when the author claimed the UK was the biggest exporter in 1993 and now it's not - well, duh: this country doesn't export low-margin widgets anymore, because it makes more money into high-margin services. A lot of those services are sold to... Germany.

ChuckNorris89 on Jan 21, 2020 [–]

Exactly, that's why IT salaries(especially contract rates) are higher in UK than in Germany. UK values knowledge work more.

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