Yeah, I can get the &quot;spending my life at work because it&#x27;s fun&#x2F;I like it&quot; thing (although most SV companies are more into &quot;spending my life at work&quot; than actually be working productively most of the time), but &quot;highest-earning&quot; as an advantage ? Well, if you spend your whole life at work and have 2 weeks of vacation a year, I don&#x27;t see how you can use that money :-). And being a software engineer anywhere, even in 40-hours-a-week-and-9-weeks-of-vacation France will make you earn a lot of money (relative to the cost of living).