• Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    The brain drain is affecting all the worlds but until recently it wasn’t a big problem in Europe. Now, They all migrate to USA in hope of getting jobs at big techs.

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      They all migrate to USA in hope of getting jobs at big techs.

      Eh… It’s overrated. The pay is better, but otherwise it is definitely a downgrade. Maybe from east EU, it’s a decent deal, from west EU, it’s very disappointing. You basically end up thinking “but the money is good” over and over and wanting to go back to actual civilization.

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      Nah bro. Tech workers have it crazy good here in Western Europe and they know it.noboby wants to be working 80 hour weeks so you can spend most of your income on rent, get fucked over on healthcare and employee rights, and that’s just the people not relying on the green card.

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          There’s plenty of it, it’s just not as widely publicised. The company that designed the chips in your phones started off as a British company (ARM) , the heart of the operating systems of many phones, computers and servers started in Finland (Linux), one of the biggest enterprise software developers is German (SAP), the world wide web, including HTTP and HTML, was invented by a Brit.

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            I don’t see them being able to say who can and can’t use such and such tech they made or have patent about or something like that. ARM did but it was from USA pressure. Imagine if Torvalds said. I hate Dans, i don’t want them to use my kernel or the brits saying wewill cut the net from France.

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              I don’t see them being able to say who can and can’t use such and such tech they made or have patent about or something like that.

              That’s because the likes of CERN and Linus Torvalds open sourced their work. And it’s a very good thing for the industry as a whole that they did.

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        10 months ago

        You don’t need to work 80 hour weeks or spend most of your income on rent.

        Just don’t buy into the SF bay area meme.

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          There are large parts of the country that aren’t much better, and a lot of them are where these jobs are based. Doesn’t help that companies have become anti-WFH recently.

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            10 months ago

            Texas is much cheaper, doesn’t have STATE INCOME TAX, housing is more readily available

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              Sure, Texas has less taxes. Shame about the lack of employee rights, public healthcare, public childcare, etc.