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Some that come to my mind I had good experience with are social hobbies, boxing, bjj, dancing classes, chess, tabletop groups.

From one bandwagon to the other. Spicy.

Companies barely have enough time and money to keep developing their already existing 10+ yrs old tested and "working" codebases as is, how would anyone switch to a whole new language at this point?

We are social creatures. Providing value to others arguably leads to better long term satisfaction with life (unless psycho/sociopaths, they need not worry about this)

It can be through having kids, but also through teaching others, passing on knowledge or being of help to others through work or inventions.

Rule 1 of a successful dope dealer is not to go high on your own supply.

Why escape? Access the debug console and rule the world...

It is unethical not to do it if you have the capability.

Sometimes pass by value is what you need, for example passing a shared pointer to get the increment on use count.

Also I believe passing types smaller than or equal to pointer size by reference is redundant.

Not a carpenter, but what would be the problem?

Granted it might be still cheaper for humans to do the labor for some time, but eventually we will have most houses manufactured (home printing) or done as a prefab and assembled. For luxury some could be custom made by AI powered robots, based on user prompt.

Subject to automation as any other human endeavour.

Might as well say to get a real job like hunting, foraging for berries or animal herding.

Deep story. The system is flawed -The capital take over of small family ran busineses by big corporate have not served the civilized west very well.

It made all of insignificant and constantly having to fight over scraps in sea of insecurity, offering nothing of substance, a doomed society.

Compress the texts and find the distance between the results

A clear vision to distribute neural network weights in the blockchain on the cloud using microservices and DLC content to disrupt the invisible hand of the market and make the world a better place.

Nah it has to be AI driven these days to get approval from management.

Very much an outlier and I doubt it's reproducible across multiple contracts

Leveraged and regarded

make sure to expand your social circle and connect with peers and professors.

cycles were always there, just now it seems like the intervals are getting shorter and shorter...

10+yoe, thinking about moving on to greener pastures very soon as well. could you share what career you pivoted to?

it sounds like you are projecting your own insecurities my friend. how about you try to dismantle ath3nd's take with counter argument instead of going for ad hominem attack.

> Where are the other ten hypothetical people?

Zoned out somewhere in the backstreets of SF

I guess he means simply punching out the hex code onto a cardboard?

capital letters at the beginning of a sentence are deprecated, as they offer no tactical or semantic advantage. worse yet, they break the flow and consistency of written text.

breaks my mind to see the clueless faces when I say I'm a software engineer .. and in 21st century no less

I think something like this makes the most sense for most people:

0-3 junior 3-7 medior 7-12 senior

salaries for tech workers are a joke in DE/AT when accounted for cost of living, taxes and what other professionals are making. the incentives do not match the work put in, hence why they can't find people and are in constant state of "wonder".

what seems to be the way to go is people ladder hopping every 2 years to make it to a managerial level, because when you not a manager you are nothing in Germany salary wise. the tech worker career track simply does not exist.

Ok, you raised some very good points. first things first, you do get unemployment and sick benefits if you insure yourself, as self employed this is voluntary in Germany and in Austria you do get some basic coverage with statutory insurance afaik.

The specific case you described is not tax avoidance but tax fraud and anyone can replicate it or report it depending on their preferred moral inclination.

I'm talking about tax avoidance, again, I'm from eastern Europe and I know a _lot_ of people who have dependant sources of income but act as independent contractors despite working countless years for one employer and as a result paying much less on taxes despite having 5x income of average employee and this is taken out of said average employees salary who don't have the opportunity to work in high demand IT field whether due to education or not having above average IQ.

Of course there are a lot of people like you described in food, entertainment, maintenance or house building service who take cash on hand and never report it, but as said this is fraud not avoidance.

yeah I think Germany and Austria have it right. things that are possible in some eastern EU countries can be easily considered tax avoidance at best and deliberate holes in laws that benefit certain people, this is reason why some people there can make the same or more after tax income compared to western europe.

imo its a question of time when EU decides to clamp down on this if they can

paying 0 % tax on capital gains and 7% tax on dividends, no social and health care charges is quite a thing when you compare the laws that govern this in western europe

I think a lot of managers would prefer to see someone sitting in a chair and being able to control them on a fixed (low) salary, than to let people work remotely and have freedom of managing their own time and a competitive edge of freelancing.

this makes sense, however I'm thinking having setup a local US llc might be better for optics