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I once dated a UX developer. Their entire identity revolved around the fact that they made $120k per year, a duke in the labour aristocracy, and how much they loved the creative challenge of making a user-friendly interface. Their company? It designs smartlocks for luxury prepper bunkers. They told me that there was no backdoor built into the keypads they were programming 12 hours a day. They literally designed the thing that will kill them when they flee to the mountains next to them. It was a fun creative challenge to make locking them out of a tech CEO's bunker more user-friendly.
It's such a particular kind of Engineer Brain derangement. Motherfucker you live in the Andor Prison. You build the death star gear to bomb your own planet. You cannot be proud that you earned flavour in your slop ration that shift.
$120k is tech worker minimum wage for any major metropolitan area.
Unless you are in Germany, then you are in top 5% of earners
Based on $ usage, I'm assuming usd.
120k euros is a lot more than 120k usd and might be worth an already damaged soul.