They keep people so poor that Americans need to hire European people for the high-end AI researchers, because EU still has the best education, despite having probably ten times less money. (Unless you consider being "poor" is exclusively about money and not quality of life, enlightenment and improvements to the society. In this case I'm happy to be poor but have all of those)
EU companies are willing to pay for top talent too, it's just that the amounts they can afford to pay are smaller than US companies, for a variety of reasons.
They keep people so poor that Americans need to hire European people for the high-end AI researchers, because EU still has the best education, despite having probably ten times less money. (Unless you consider being "poor" is exclusively about money and not quality of life, enlightenment and improvements to the society. In this case I'm happy to be poor but have all of those)