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Re:The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon... by jogjayr on Friday July 06, 2018 @12:59AM (#17468972)
This keeps being brought up but I'm sorry, no. The IBMer maybe has a larger house that they own rather than rent. In basically every other respect, the $240k-earning employee comes out ahead. The latter earns more, can save _way_ more, lives in an area with better weather, and can afford to retire far earlier.
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Re:The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon... by moftz on Friday July 06, 2018 @08:02AM (#17470693)
Exactly, they can put much more into a 401k and then move somewhere cheap to retire and have a much higher standard of living than the $50k guy would.
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