People making WordPress websites are making more than PhD research scientists in Taiwan, and Korea.
TSMC announced that they're raising salaries by 20% across the board, so that should improve things a bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6DaxXukog4
And they cut the bonus at the same time.
Wow, so I need to thank myself for accidentally bumbling towards ops and dev? Meh, for me it’s just that in EU there’s a total dearth of opportunities in the industry