Franze, it seems you are short sighted. The Sozialparterschaft currently helps to keep the startup cargo cult in check which primarily seeks to create work for three years just to be swallowed by a bigger company, most of the time because the startup was getting a nuisance and not because it created substantual value. The Sozialpartnerschaft also guaranteed many years of slow but steady growth and the culture of belonging and equality many countries in the world search for.

It's because of such short-sighted longings like dooming the Sozialparterschaft why values like equality and solidarity are increasingly falling to peaces, reduced workforce protection, going ill to the job etc.

You are right that one state social security system would probably be enough instead of more than a dozen.

I'm on of those "young founders" here and have zero issues with the SVA. They take at most 20k/y from you for health care and pension, and I'm fine with that. And just because you don't want to pay your potential employees a living wage (which are low in the IT collective bargaining contracts) doesn't mean the Sozialpartnerschaft is bad. On the contrary, it keeps those stary eyed "young founders" from fucking over the people that help build their potential future fortune.

This sort of sentiment explains why socialist Europe will never be able to build successful companies like Google/FB.

Or maybe they're building smaller, useful, and profitable companies and don't need to be the next Google or Facebook?

SVA has also an superior service and is not more expensive than other health insurances. Sozialpartnerschaft ensures balanced politics and is a foundation of Austrias post war success.

Can you elaborate more on what "SVA and "Sozialpartnerschaft" is? My cursory English search isn't bearing much fruit. Cheers.