Plenty of Americans do too. :-P Your calculations totally ignore healthcare and cost of living. All the cities in the US with high salaries also have ludicrous housing costs. Who cares if I make 150% as much as in Europe, but houses are 500% as much? That also ignores healthcare, which can be comparable if you are young…
Of course it's worth learning. Whether you use it or not is whole another matter. You may ask next where to to use it. Well some people will say "for everything" and some "nahh photos all day!". What I can say from my little personal experience: 1. It's very nice for creating rocks, big stone structures (columns, big…