alga

Now you're doing more of the same, not contributing anything of value to the discussion in 689 characters.

I suspect you'd get near royal treatment with a couple hundred bucks...

On the contrary, "every man for himself" belongs in the XIX century. In essence, you're advocating that weaker individuals should be trampled under feet.

If you want USA, you know where to find it.

Na-ah. The €9/hr "competition" are students living on instant noodles. You can't make a business out of that.

Then you're not making sense. Do you want to be able to fire pregnant women, or do you want to be able to refuse them employment after they return? That would be a horrible thing to do, perhaps it's good that you're not an employer then ;-)

But he's hyperbolising, too. An illegal freelancer for a quarter the price is no competition for a legitimate business. Most business clients will not even consider paying black cash in an envelope, and the illegal freelancer will also lose out on social insurance.

See! The net salary and the total cost of employment are the sole interesting figures when comparing internationally, the gross salary is a largely arbitrary figure between those two.

But they do. The philosophy of the system is the same, just the details, the macroeconomic variables are different. Hopefully they will even out in several decades. The Netherlands are a good example of what we are trying to achieve. (I live in Lithuania, a country with a similar GDP (PPP) per capita to Hungary.)