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> make so much more money doing the same job in the US than anywhere else.

Unless you are comparing with top-paying faang employers, the difference is not as stark I think.

Once you deduct the higher cost of every day things, medical expenses, education fees, and other social safety net stuff that you typically get for free in EU, and compound that with a weak dollar, you'll see that the typical EU salary is probably not all that bad. Otherwise, as you say, companies would have outsourced to EU rather than India for example.