Originally Posted by
Shedaar
Here you say that Europeans are more reluctant to spend money (which might be the case and I agree with a general feeling of this statement), but in the previous post it was said that "lots of European players are poor", which is, once again, not backed by any data by the OP and really offensive.
To post some data, back in 2010:
26% of adults in US were in low income group, and 56% in Middle class, wherea's in Spain it was 24% adults in low income and 64% in middle class.
If you go further compare:
26% low income, 56% middle class in US vs. 14%/80% in Denmark, 18%/72% in Germany, 13%/79% in Netherlands and let's throw in 17%/74% in France.
How are Europeans generally poorer, if bigger percentage of population, statistically, is in fact richer in Europe?
Hence, the initial argument is false and really offensive.
EDIT:
Source of data: Luxembourg’s Cross-National Data Center