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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by shokunin on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:28AM (#13940007)
Yeah, try enjoying your time with friends and long vacations with no money in your pocket. Fuck Berlin.
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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by onion2k on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:34PM (#13941330)
try enjoying your time with friends and long vacations

Try enjoying your time with friends and long vacations when you work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week! Ah, you can't! See!

There's a balance to be struck. Having no money isn't fun, but having no time isn't fun either. If you talk to people about their regrets, it's much more common to hear people lament working longer hours than not having had enough money.

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by vilmosi on Thursday March 23, 2017 @06:42PM (#13945015)
It's not called a work-life balance for nothing.
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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by ionised on Friday March 24, 2017 @08:50AM (#13948524)
Nobody in Berlin has any money? That's awful.
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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by usrusr on Friday March 24, 2017 @01:44PM (#13950719)
That's awfully untrue. Except for the part where having no money as a lifestyle choice is a very Berlin thing to do. I have literally met people who switched from full time in a smaller city to part time remote to fulfill their dream of having little money in Berlin. (Berlin also has its share of genuinely poor people, but those are not the less-than-silicon-valley-wage developers we are talking about)
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