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What the fuck is your problem?

If you start talking about salaried work, you have to account for Austria's 5 weeks of mandatory PTO, infinite paid sick days (with a pay reduction after 6 weeks, clock resets each year), additional paid care leave (Pflegefreistellung) for sick family, paid maternity / paternity leave, etc. in contrast with whatever the British system offers. For developers in Austria who choose salaried work, the math tends to add up with at least 2 months off each year, union protection etc.

You'd have to be an expert on labor law in every country you seek to honestly compare. The only clean way to simply compare earnings is freelance rates.

The U.S. Americans really give Hassan Piker this much importance? Wow. I thought he was just a washed up Twitch streamer.

Software developers average about 80 - 120€/h in Austria. How are UK rates so bad?

This would be borderline illegal in most countries. Not very enforcable, sure, but illegal.

I would be very interested where you got some of these misconceptions and half-truths.

I end up explaining this term to every junior developer that doesn't know it sooner or later, the same way I explain bike shedding to all PMs that don't know it... often sooner, rather than later.

It seems to really help if you can put a term to it.

What is a "Tja, IMANAH"?

American hourly rates in IT are truly nuts. I wonder if the value-add to hiring American is really worth it, in German-speaking EU you'd get real top-notch engineering for 120€/h. Even less further eastwards.

> cool shiny shit

You mean absurdly high compensation for very comfortable, low-stress office work? People work to feed their families, not just because working is 'cool'.

Paywall.

> 800 - 1200

What the fuck? Is this normal in the U.S.A.?

Am I the only one who feels the comments here don't sound organic at all?

Yeah. These are literally just mainframe techniques from yesteryear.

I'm not sure you fully grasped what was said in the parent comment. It literally does not matter anymore if we can all agree on the previous blocks, it would be impossible to identify who owns which wallet anymore. The seed phrase would be useless.

The only endgame I see for the region is sadly the complete and utter annihilation of all civilizations there, possibly through nuclear means.

I do not say this lightly and I say it with a deep sadness in my heart for the people of the middle east, but also with the sober realization that this is the only end of the path that is currently walked.

> The first violates international treaties

Yeah, but USrAel never ratified UNCLOS. Iran is in the same boat.

I earn good money, but I pay 50% taxes on my income and another 20% VAT on almost anything I buy.

I'm okay with this, but don't try to tell me that I'm not paying for the privileges we all get to enjoy here.

High income earners are the net payers here who disproportionally pour taxes into the system, so everyone can take part in these subsidized schemes. How this basic concept eludes you is beyond me.

Thank you! I find it generally distasteful how often the media seems to memory hole the Yugoslav Wars. We've already seen this in 2022 with many pundits claiming that the war in Ukraine is the 'first armed military conflict in Europe since WW2' - which is just blatantly false in this context.

A 7-day-card at the Semmering costs € ~280, the sports hotel there is another € ~800 and then let's price in €~600 for food. So an entire week-long ski holiday in the alps costs you around € 1.700.

I will not try to argue if this is much or little, just trying to add some context for those not familiar with popular skiing tourism destinations.

That's a very nice analogy, thank you.

I do not understand what you're trying to communicate with "hold by a string" - we subsidize our farmers because we do not want to completely wreck our local agricultural supply chains just because food from, say Brazil, would be theoretically cheaper today. Another factor is that we actually have the ability to properly enforce quality standards if the food is produced within our jurisdiction.

This is no different to subsidizing public transport, because having this infrastructure local and autonomous is just strategically important enough for the tax payer to finance it. Would you say that public transport in EU capitals is "holding on by a string"?

> Vienna is probably not food self sufficient

No, but Austria is. And our farmers enjoy much support through subsidies - from the EU and our own budget - and social protections, often having better and cheaper health care than most other Austrians, since they are insured under their very own social insurance law (BSVG), contrary to other employees (ASVG) and self-employed (GSVG).

Farmers also enjoy very high levels of respect and appreciation here, even in Vienna.

> While enjoying a high paying job in probably a still very unregulated domain (computers/internet related).

Calling Information Technology an 'unregulated domain' in the EU when we're all busy implementing NIS2 regulation and preparing for the Cyber Resilience Act entering into force soon seems disingenuous.

I really have to wonder where in the EU you live. In Vienna, I got to buy an apartment in my mid-twenties by just saving up, which was easy, as many apartments are rent-capped and there's lots of cheap social housing. I got to enjoy free university, allowing me to get a high paying job. I get to use very cheap all electric state-subsidized rental car offerings if I need them, which is rare since we have federally good rail and bus coverage. And I enjoy affordable meat, dairy and vegetables all sourced from inside my country.

Austria's courts also ruled ages ago that rooting your own device cannot be a legal reason for OEMs like Samsung to refuse warranty coverage, since you can run whatever software you want on hardware you bought.

Maybe your country sucks? Don't blame it on the EU.

> Governments are lame

In 2019, the EU created an eIDAS compatible European Self-Sovereign Identity Framework (ESSIF).

How is the government lame, here? We've had the infrastructure for 7 years now.

What German civil rights legislation are you referring to?

Did you even look at the voting pattern? The far right was completely against it or extremely split on the issue.

But it's not like that now, is it? I created an identical copy of the art piece and provide it for free to enjoyers of art all over the world.

They cannot make them leave the EU, no. But Hungary can be:

- kicked out of the Schengen Treaty

- kicked out of the NATO

- fined under EU breach of contract proceedings

- withheld financial support as long as they do not pay these fines

- forced through customs policy, which is sole EU competence, to stop compensating lost EU support with Chinese money

Honestly, I'd be in full support of some above listed actions if the elections in April show the current will of the Hungarian people misaligned with shared EU values.

As long as companies employ morally vacuous techniques to strip us of our fundamental freedoms, I say, copyright should be completely disregarded by the global citizenry as dead law. The AI labs have set the precedent here.

Why should big companies get to have rights and freedoms when such things aren't afforded to us? Long live piracy. May our spirits never falter.