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Economies of scale and different expectations of timely delivery... Both of those prices are much more than I deal with here in the NL though
Yes. Everyone in the US tells me that people get so much more money there than here in Germany because of the taxes and everything. And then you have to pay $30 for a simple food delivery?
It's part of the propaganda. Richest country in the world, they say, but you pay a lot more for basically everything because there's few government regulations keeping prices in check, and a number of things that are done by the government in other countries are run by for profit corporations here (healthcare).
Although, $10.50 for the mail is pretty pricey. That's no letter that they're sending. I run an Etsy shop and frequently send stuff in padded envelopes through the post office, and those cost me like $4 to send across the country.
I thought they were taking the piss with the $30, is that for real?
I used to live in Morocco and I paid about $3 a month for free deliveries with their local equivalent.
Don't forget the 1000x American markup for anything health related.
Yes, that was also what I thought. But people assured me that I should just get a tech job and the employer will then pay all my health costs
The real trick, I’ve heard, is to work remotely for a U.S. company. Get all the benefits of a civilized country but they pay you the bigger salaries(if you work in a field that isn’t 100% rat-fucked yet).