Why don’t other countries copy Switzerland?

[Will be deleted]

It seems like Switzerland is one of the most successful countries despite its lack of sea access and being surrounded by bigger countries.

It manage to pay signficantly higher salaries than other european countries or even USA, have pretty good work life balance, one of worlds highest life expectancies, low taxes, very little poverty and so on. Like seems to do very well in like every area.

[Hairy Hands Harry]

Messaggio originale di Elation:

Messaggio originale di Hairy Hands Harry:

I thought that Switzerland does not allow immigration. Only in rare cases.

That's not true at all. And it's much easier for EU citizens to live and work in Switzerland in particular. It's pretty common for Germans and Italians to come over the border and work there.

But can they become official citizens? Or do they have to leave when the work permit ends?

[SvarogX]

Messaggio originale di Hairy Hands Harry:

Messaggio originale di Elation:

That's not true at all. And it's much easier for EU citizens to live and work in Switzerland in particular. It's pretty common for Germans and Italians to come over the border and work there.

But can they become official citizens? Or do they have to leave when the work permit ends?

If you hold your permanet visa ( C-Bewilligung) for I think 8ish years, you can apply for a citizenship, but if you got your C, you can stay permanently anyway.

You can apply for a permanent visa after like 4 years working there, as far as I remember. I don't have the exact numbers in my head right now.

[Will be deleted]

Messaggio originale di Triple G:

Messaggio originale di Will be deleted:

How can companies pay much higher wages in Switzerland than Germany, Italy and France?

They have to. Like in Switzerland 1,200 Euros are the existential minimum - here in Germany it´s around 1,000 Euro. Per month...

Also it depends on the jobs. If You´re a banker, or work in an hotel for super rich tourists You probably earn more than the 15th lifter driver in a company, while there are 10 other potential lifter drivers which are forced to apply for any free lifter driver job, which earns them more than the welfare amount (the said 1k above). So there´s no reason to raise the salary for such jobs, as the people will apply there anyways.

And companies in Germany wouldn´t raise the salary, or offer better work conditions on their own - they rather complain about too few workers for them. And then the politicians would discuss "solutions" for it.

And Switzerland has a few world wide big companies, which offer high quality or/and high priced stuff. They have private schools in which rich people all over the world put their children into, and some technological institutes which only exist in Switzerland.

Yes switzerland seems more expensive but the salaries are so high it is still net gain in most cases and you can still live outside of switzerland in certain cases and probably get the best of both high pay and low cost of living.

[76561198356019466]

They don't have a big enough Xerox machine?

[permanent name]

Messaggio originale di tiny E:

They don't have a big enough Xerox machine?

they couldn't get the copyright so they designed their entire society to do without.

alright I get the joke now; slow morning.

[swillfly]

Answer: Because they lack quality chocolate.

Thread = SOLVED

ur welcome

[SvarogX]

Messaggio originale di Will be deleted:

Messaggio originale di Triple G:

They have to. Like in Switzerland 1,200 Euros are the existential minimum - here in Germany it´s around 1,000 Euro. Per month...

Also it depends on the jobs. If You´re a banker, or work in an hotel for super rich tourists You probably earn more than the 15th lifter driver in a company, while there are 10 other potential lifter drivers which are forced to apply for any free lifter driver job, which earns them more than the welfare amount (the said 1k above). So there´s no reason to raise the salary for such jobs, as the people will apply there anyways.

And companies in Germany wouldn´t raise the salary, or offer better work conditions on their own - they rather complain about too few workers for them. And then the politicians would discuss "solutions" for it.

And Switzerland has a few world wide big companies, which offer high quality or/and high priced stuff. They have private schools in which rich people all over the world put their children into, and some technological institutes which only exist in Switzerland.

Yes switzerland seems more expensive but the salaries are so high it is still net gain in most cases and you can still live outside of switzerland in certain cases and probably get the best of both high pay and low cost of living.

Triple G has shared his socialist views numerous times and he has no clue how Switzerland works.

Why you are ignoring someone who lives in Switzerland and works there, but rather spend attention on someone who has no clue what he is on about, is beyond my understanding.

Switzerland is not expensive at all. Considering you pay very low taxes and have a higher income to begin with, you have a lot more of the money you earn. I never felt like it was expensive living there.

[MinionJoe]

They're called "Swiss bank accounts" for a reason.

If the rest of the world deregulated banks and removed all traceability on financial transactions, Switzerland wouldn't have anything left but chocolate, cuckoo clocks, and the Alps.

[Triple G]

Messaggio originale di Capybara:

Triple G has shared his socialist views numerous times and he has no clue how Switzerland works.

I mean a certain Chameleon troll has also shared his views multiple times.

Besides:
Is there any evidence You live and / or work in Switzerland? If yes - i don´t understand why You promote a certain political party in Germany. It shouldn´t concern You that much.

Also does one need to live somewhere to talk about things which everybody has access to? So far i never talked about the every day life in Switzerland, because i don´t live there, and have never been there. I wouldn´t even say something about everyday life in the Netherlands, as i was only there as tourist, or perhaps to do business if You want to call it that way.

And everybody can find the numbers that living in Switzerland is more expensive compared to Germany. While of course - depending on where You live, and what job You have, and what You expect from life, there are people who pay more in Germany compared to Switzerland - or have higher costs of living.

[76561199445701497]

Messaggio originale di MinionJoe:

They're called "Swiss bank accounts" for a reason.

If the rest of the world deregulated banks and removed all traceability on financial transactions, Switzerland wouldn't have anything left but chocolate, cuckoo clocks, and the Alps.

The cuckoo clocks are German. You are thinking of mechanical watches.

[MinionJoe]

Messaggio originale di Justin Credible:

Messaggio originale di MinionJoe:

They're called "Swiss bank accounts" for a reason.

If the rest of the world deregulated banks and removed all traceability on financial transactions, Switzerland wouldn't have anything left but chocolate, cuckoo clocks, and the Alps.

The cuckoo clocks are German. You are thinking of mechanical watches.

Yup. You're right.

I wasted time researching "The Sound of Music" and didn't bother looking up cuckoo clocks.

I should've known though. My grandmother collected them and she was German.

[Will be deleted]

According to Eurostat Severe material and social deprivation rate, Switzerland have significantly less poverty than Germany, France and Italy with Austria being about equal so despite the higher cost of living, it seems it do better at combating poverty.

[permanent name]

switzerland mostly assembles watches; the ones they make themselves are a secondary luxury market that doesn't see as much business.

they buy the parts using the economic surplus from acting as a dumping ground for dark money.

[trousers]

Switzerland hasn't been copied because the last software update to humanity unfortunately broke the ability to copy and paste nations

[Dawido]

Theres difference between small Switzerland and giant America