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The article mentions both a banker and a electrician... What is qualified ? Bankers/Academics go to the UK and make twice the money. For a electrician, Germany is very attractive. However, don't try to setup your own firm because politics seems to actively work against entrepreneurship. Their business administration literally is like a guild system from the dark ages.

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> Bankers/Academics go to the UK and make twice the money

Academics does not make more money in UK than in Germany, in fact for junior positions (PhD/Postdoc) they make less. Full professors seems to make more, but I rumors say than new professors in UK are making significantly less than their older (boomer and older) counterparts.

https://fastepo.com/comparison-of-salary-of-postdoc-in-europ... https://academicpositions.com/career-advice/professor-salari...

With academics I mean people with a phd working in the private sector, not professors ... But you are right about Germany taking proper care of public servants. My German gf makes almost double the amount of money compared to her Dutch counterparts over here.

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