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Re:How do you invest your disposable income as a tech worker? by NKosmatos on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:18AM (#17265615)
The what? LOL

Some of us living and working in less "privileged" countries (I'm from Greece) don't have the luxury of having disposable income to invest, especially tech workers that are paid way less than tech managers.

I don't know exactly how things are in the first world countries, but the only disposable income goes as spare cash for emergencies, health problems and other similar activities.

Re:How do you invest your disposable income as a tech worker? by sotojuan on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:37AM (#17266488)
Then why comment on this thread at all? This is like someone making a thread saying "How do I do X in Swift?" and I come in and say "I only know Python, so I have no idea LOL!".

Was the point of your comment to just complain about being a dev in Greece?

Re:How do you invest your disposable income as a tech worker? by NKosmatos on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:50AM (#17266612)
If someone wants to make a specific question it needs to find the correct place/forum to ask it.

Having someone asking general questions as this one on a big tech news site read by a lot of people, it’s expected to get many different (controversial) answers.

Does it mean that in order to comment/reply under a Tesla thread I need to own a Tesla?

Re:How do you invest your disposable income as a tech worker? by ddorian43 on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:28AM (#17265720)
Become better developer and work remotely for better wealthier countries. Probably cutting the middle tech manager.

If your wage as tech worker relatively sucks compared to local wages, whatever country you're in, you're probably doing it wrong.

Re:How do you invest your disposable income as a tech worker? by dsc_ on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:34AM (#17266462)
As cold as the above comment may sound - I concur, there's always a way to earn more.

Perhaps you would need to find remote work or learn another language. Or simply work hard(er). Whatever it takes.

Re:How do you invest your disposable income as a tech worker? by ddorian43 on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:41AM (#17266529)
Not harder, smarter.
Re:How do you invest your disposable income as a tech worker? by tonyedgecombe on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:15AM (#17266227)
It's interesting to compare savings rates in the US to Greece:

https://data.oecd.org/chart/5cbS

No doubt there are some savers in Greece although if I was one of them I'd probably keep my savings in a German bank account.

Re:How do you invest your disposable income as a tech worker? by stealthmodeclan on Friday June 08, 2018 @11:01AM (#17266079)
You can move to Berlin or Krakow. If you are a good developer, you'll be handsomely paid.

Also, it's trivial to move there for you since you are a EU citizen.

Re:How do you invest your disposable income as a tech worker? by dev_north_east on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:52AM (#17265984)
If things are so bad, why not move? (Not being patronizing, genuinely curious as to why you don't.)
Re:How do you invest your disposable income as a tech worker? by marketgod on Friday June 08, 2018 @12:47PM (#17267251)
You can use the stock market to save the emergency cash. Just invest it wisely.