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I have done the numbers for myself, and even taking pension and treating an extra week of vacation as a 1/52 pay raise, doing a software job for the government would be a huge step down for me financially. Basically gives me 0% chance of ever buying a home where I currently live


For every underpaid government software engineer there's an overpaid paper pusher, and they're both paid the same amount.


> me 0% chance of ever buying a home where I currently live

The housing crisis is the Everything Crisis. It’s destroying competence of government services, as no one ambitious will accept this fate.

It destroyed competitiveness of our industry because you can’t pay a worker less than it costs to rent.

It’s causing apathy and rise in extremist views among younger population as they realise they have no path to dignified future.

I am hoping that China does well for itself and one day we can just consider them as an example of competent and coherent governance and sort out our shit.




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