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So by the same logic, criticism agains the government shouldn't be taken seriously unless they come from a former prime minister?


Be careful of casting a float to a boolean.

Criticism of the government from someone who has experience running a large bureaucracy, negotiating, balancing groups with competing interests et cetera will rightly, other things equal, be taken more seriously than from someone whose experience of politics doesn't extend past ranting on Twitter.

Of course, other things may not be equal. If the latter person has sufficiently convincing arguments, can back them up with reference to sufficiently solid evidence, then these things may carry the point on their own merit.


Government criticism from people who have experience with running government or being in the politics tend to have much higher quality then criticism coming from sixteen years old high school class president.


What tends to be the case is irrelevant. The contents of what is being said is all that matters.


So when it comes to the highest level of government, only those who have reached such heights may say a peep. Only criticism from former US presidents regarding Trump, please!


When random dude possibly with asperger gives advice/criticism on how to negotiate, reasonable government official will igore him - even if the criticism came in form of a blog. Likewise, succesfull activists ignore armchair advice from people on anonymous twitter. Not sure how is that controversial. Torwalds does not spend his time worrying about whether random bloggers agree with linux core style guide.

You did not demonstrated enough of knowledge/expeciance for me to take your criticism seriously is valid answer.


The Asperger's comment is completely unnecessary, has nothing to do with the substance of your argument, and may potentially be offensive to people.


Criticism against governments by former governors should and is taken more seriously than criticism by some joe who's never had to wrangle a bureaucracy.


They may leave them open, but for an European engineer it just became a lot less attractive.


> Companies treat workers well because they have to compete to get them. Not because the government forces their hand.

There is nothing keeping them from colluding to keep wages down then. Apart from the government, that is...


Not only keeping wages down, but imposing long work hours and poor work conditions: unsafe, unhealthful. Not to mention employing children who ought to be in school. It's legislation which prevents such abuses.


Well, if the UK leaves the EU my rights would be affected. Also I expect a few years of bad economy after the decision where it will be easy to blame other European countries for every problem. So the future doesn't look very promising if we stay.

I was considering Berlin, Amsterdam and Madrid (we are originally from there, so it's the obvious place to come back to, even if the situation there is less than ideal).


I admit, I am not familiar with all the details, but I as far as I know an exit should not affect the residency of foreigners already living there.

As for the economy, I'd wait and evaluate how things are going.

Have you considered Vienna as well?


Yes, I've never been but I've heard that it's a beautiful city.

How is the job situation there? I don't know many software companies in Vienna.


I am afraid I cant comment on the job situation. Its probably not exactly the European counterpart of Silicon Valley :) but they nonetheless have a fair share of IT companies. Maybe check out http://www.karriere.at/jobs/edv-it-organisation?states%5B0%5...

As for the city, yes it's quite a nice one, good infrastructure, lots of cultural heritage, nice environment and so on .... for the past six years it ranked #1 in Mercer's list of quality of living survey. Though to be fair, last time I was there I do admit I had the impression some things changed and it seems it has become less safe recently. So that might be something to consider as well.


You'll be definitely be allowed to stay in the UK, but the economy will definitely tank...


I could get UK citizenship if I ask for it, and I would have done that if it was the other way around (my country leaving the EU, instead of the UK).

The way I see it, the main argument to leave the EU is to reduce immigration, it would be pointless if we stay in anyway :)


As far as I can tell, the main argument is about democracy vs un-elected individuals.


I would rather not go into that, but I've heard this several times and I think it misrepresents the situation:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36429482


Unfortunately, the BBC is extremely biased. Far worse than it used to be. Probably best to read from other inversely biased sources too :)


Well, who knows how will it work if UK leaves EU - what if they get an agreement similar to Switzerland :-)


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