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[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I live in Austria, where it's not even quite as nice (well, similar benefits, but no federal minimum wage). It's deeply engrained in our culture that education doesn't have to be prep for a job. I personally know many people who pursue or have completed uni education that's completely unrelated to their like of work. Some have degrees in other areas, some don't. We have some pretty 'bad' statistics for how long People take to finish their degrees because people are, like, full time kindergarten teachers and taking 10 years to do a political science degree on the side purely because it interests them. People value education for its own sake and I love it. Unfortunately though, capitalism has this culture on the decline, and not even that long after education became open to most people.

[–] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No minimum wage, but we do have collective bargaining, for anyone who's interested.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

I would rather have a citizens income than a minimum wage and would prefer a maximum wage (highest paid cannot be more than 100x lowest paid)

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, thanks for adding :) but there's industries where the minimum wage is still under 10€.

[–] DeviantOvary@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it's not exactly a worker's utopia here, for sure, but at least there's some raise every year that my employer wouldn't otherwise give me if not for collective bargaining.