Please Don't Tell Anyone How I Live

The transatlantic compensation gap hits different. American devs swimming in six-figure salaries, stock options, and enough perks to make a small nation jealous - represented by Homer as a bejeweled monarch. Meanwhile, European developers are eating ramen in their underwear, wondering if they should've just become baristas instead. The salary difference is so astronomical it's practically a different currency system - one measured in "yachts per quarter" versus "can I afford name-brand cereal this month?"