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> If you are actually in the UK, you have some amazing benefits that US-based folks don't get in the form of healthcare. So? That's pretty irrelevant since any
by morgante 9y ago
> If you are actually in the UK, you have some amazing benefits that US-based folks don't get in the form of healthcare.
So? That's pretty irrelevant since any good developer job in the US comes with excellent health coverage.
- Tangurena2 9y agoThe healthcare that comes with any good developer job is the same healthcare that management thinks is good enough for their employees. It is rarely the case that it is good by objective standards.
- mgkimsal 9y agoAnd when you lose your job... you lose access to that "excellent health coverage". Health insurance being so culturally tied to "employment" is ... very problematic.
- morgante 9y agoYou don't have to preach that to me (I agree), but it does mean that you shouldn't really consider universal healthcare to be an additional benefit when comparing UK & US developers. The US developer also has healthcare not factored into their salary.