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Otherwise known in the industry as 'weaseling'.

He doesn't explicitly exclude publicly funded institutions. He says working for big organizations will always suck. I quoted him verbatim. And this highlights my problem with him: absolutes.

Also, does your final sentence insinuate that people at CERN aren't actually working?!

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He might implicitly exclude them? I wouldn't discount his post completely just because it has an absolutist tone. To do so would be absolutist yourself.

Like most public institutions, CERN is overstaffed and has produced comparatively little.

Publicly funded people in Europe act and feel like royalty and build themselves Veblen goods. In several German cities, the only buildings that are in good shape are government buildings and universities.

Normal people do not have money to paint their houses (if they have one, that's another thing only civil servants can afford).

Yeah, no. There is probably quite some inefficiency at CERN like at all large institutions, but none of the rest is true according to my observations. Even in Berlin, which is a relatively poor German city, there are plenty of well maintained private buildings of all kinds. I've also seen somewhat rundown looking government offices.

I'm curious about this flurry of freshly created accounts that seem to be responding to me...?

Having been to Germany a few times, I've not noticed anything like only government buildings being in good repair. Can you identify a few cities that are like this?

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