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Sounds like they could bail them out along the way by reimbursing them later

Doreen, what jobs do men with similar to your skills get? What skills do you work on to improve your chances? Do you believe you have expressed well enough to the requiter your willingness to contribute and help move the organization further?

On a side note, I come from a place where we had communism and as a consequence women in science are marginally a majority (the country is Bulgaria). The vast majority (80%) of the IT reqruiters here are female and despite of that they still target, interview and hire 90% of the times male candidates. I really wish I could tell if the cause is prejudice or merit, but I can't.

What we won't tell you is that many investors have realised that the price will fall freely if the supply can't be limited in demand drops. And they are now seeking to gain control over as much of the circulating supply as possible.

Come to Eastern Europe, your student loan money is enough for a whole new life here.

P.s. honestly, I don't understand how ppl who are so hoplessly indebted are not migrating here. Bulgaria offers very cheap life with the opportunity of doing business with the EU and the US. Why work 24/7 when you can enjoy a good life in a place where the local people and economy need a foreigner to lead them in the business and globalizing world?

Maybe USDT (Tether) if you feel foolish enough to ignore the fraud alerts...

Governance had become too complicated already, people with higher knowledge in governing and econ should have higher vote weight.

Generalizing it as "most" is definitely not a sign of a realist's view. Most of them reap profits from low wages and the open EU market. Others get oversized government contracts funded by EU funds and a large part of them do it with corruption. Finally there are some but not that many "no-go" markets which are a special interest of the local and Russian oligarchs and their lobbying kills the competition. Romania did a relatively good job in their judicial reform, but Bulgaria lags behind a lot on that.

That may be valid only if you're able to raise good money but the tech investing culture is quite underdeveloped here. The startup scene needs several bigger exits to make the investors greedy and curious about it and also construction/private property yields huge profits right now, so the tech startups are not the spotlight catcher.

Private health care is very neat and relative to your paycheck it's as affordable as in the Western world

AI and data are the new oil, so beware folks - when the peasant workers are no more needed, you may want to watch out for the dictators trying to take over the ship.

First, let me admit that I might have not picked the right words above. To me, the best money/welfare that I ever got, were the scholarships. Just a little money that were exclusively intended to be spent on education.

This brings my thoughts to the second and more important aspect of the labor market. Recently there was an article here about Spain and how it had 5 million unemployed people and still the economy lacked the needed workers. And what's the response of the socialists there? Give more welfare to the people. That's just not adequate. They are hoping that the people will educate themselves but let's just see how that would develop and just few percent of them will study and fill in the labor gap. Governments should seek and demand from the people to study in exchange for that welfare money.

Last point may be only that education is highly correlated with the income and breaking out of poverty, but that's something we all know. And besides education, what else can welfare do to help you find a job?

P.S. I hope I am not the only one who is totally disregarding the claim that automation will eat out all the jobs. There has been written so much about this and we all know the problem is not there is less business to do nowadays, the problem is is harder to find the qualified workers.

Guys, most people commenting here are having at least 2x the avg income of their home country and are dangerously wrong about the motivations and the right incentives for the poor.

You are shooting yourselves and the economy in the leg if you give everybody a UBI. People need to be given incentives to become more productive and that's the only right path in the world's prosperity. One day when automation reaches that state of the art form, everybody will have lots of food, energy and shelter not because they are GIVEN for free, but because they are PRODUCED almost for free - because of technology and competition.

We can reach that state if we focus our efforts in those essential areas and the government can help by providing incentives and (maybe) cheaper credit to the venture funds in those areas.

P.S. I have been raised in a post-commie country in a poor family and have gone through the path of breaking out of poverty. I have received lots of "free" stuff and welfare along the way, both for nothing and for the promise of educating myself. The first is dead wrong, the second is the deal breaker to me.

You are totally right about the power channels, but the truth is they are focused on the construction sector. The old commies who stand behind this are not that confident when working with IT and that is one of the biggest reasons the law passed. They still don't acknowledge or don't care that it will be harder for them to steal from IT public tenders.

I know the people who stand behind this and believe me, they have 0 (zero) dependence on the oligarchy and moreover they are a team of experts who have been in the private sector until recently. This law is one against the status quo.

Bulgaria's government becomes the first in the world to obligate by law its administration not only to publish, but to develop in open source mode every software product that gets created in a public tender.

Older news of the intent: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/bulgaria-sta...

Yesterday the parliament accepted the law that makes open source development mandatory.