which country has the highest standard of living for working class people?

Question

take a skilled centre lathe turner and deduct taxes but add benifits assume 2 children and wife that works say in a supermarket.

Answer 1

Depends on your definition of "standard of living". I think it's clearly the US, and that working class people in European countries live in near-poverty by American standards, but other people use other criteria to arrive at some other country.

Answer 2

The outcome depends on how you treat the use of tax revenues. If you accept that Scandinavian regimes provide a lot of things to their citizens for free that cost other peoples a ton of money, then Scandinavia prevails every year between 1985-2007. But if you count only the money you spend yourself, then the US & Canada are forerunners for the median citizen, and Europe (Denmark, Slovakia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Belgium,...) is better for the lower quintiles.

Answer 3

Germany from a purely economic perspective, it helps when you are banned from wasting huge tracts of your national wealth on defense (and offense). Quite a few of the neutral and non-combatant powers in Europe have v. high standards for the working classes, blue collar and even the poor and destitute have to get up early in the morning if they want to try and beat state support!

Answer 4

Any where in continental western Europe. That's Germany to the English channel, anything north of the mediterranean sea.

Answer 5

australia- check it out husband truck driver 1500per long week
wife personal carer 500-600 per 35hr week

Answer 6

Sweden is well known for that

Answer 7

Right here in the USA.

Answer 8

German