And also because it's a comfortable cover up for any kind of money saving stupidity. We don't need proper requirements engineering, we're agile. We don't need an operations team we're doing an agile DevOps approach. We don't need frontend Devs, we're an agile team you all need to be full stack. I have often seen agility as an excuse to push more works towards the devs who aren't trained to do any of those tasks.

Also common problem is that still tons of people believe agile means unplanned. This definitely also contributes to projects failing that are just agile by name.

I don't think your conclusion is correct and a correlation between the two numbers is by far not enough to assume a causality between the two of them. I would rather assume there are a lot of other factors being involved. Like e.g. the education system, especially the amount of years spent on education before starting to work, the general wealth of the society, the social securities provided the government, like e.g. health care, unemployment support etc.

God from the bible. The whole book will just be a bunch of ancient stories nobody should care about anymore. Would be interesting to see what the world would be like without Christianity.

Could easily be that they have a bunch of people in Munich they can not fire since German labour laws are at least compared to a lot of places not that bad and they have to come up with some work for them. So having them work on this is still cheaper then having the people in the valley plus "useless" people in Munich.

I don't know the reason for this but if I would need to guess then it's mainly about not being afraid of being sued to bankruptcy in the rare case something happens. Though I really can't remember reading about anything happening to a child in a news paper, so I assume (or let's say hope) no to drastic accidents happened on German playgrounds in the last years.

Never considered that health insurance might be an issue to come up with those super safe playgrounds. But yeah if your retirement is endangered by you kiddo climbing up a monkey bar set it might feel way more dangerous. Could maybe also explain to a certain why most European playgrounds are more adventurous then their US counterparts.

EDIT: Also tbh I really do think it's a good thing for kids to be able to climb up on things and explore stuff that might look dangerous especially to the small ones and learn how to behave their and how to overcome those situations and also learn to improve their body control at the same time as well.

What an amazing time to be alive that those few words are providing all the required context.

I wouldn't necessarily call it civilized world, but yeah for basically every country that belongs to the so called "1st world" except the US it is and it takes a few years to become a police officer.

But it has to start speaking to them in the first place and I think OP was specifically looking for the "conversation starters"

Same thing with why do I need to pay someone to do maintenance my car, kitchen, AC, whatever works perfectly well.

Also why should we pay developers to do stuff like dependency upgrades and other maintenance or software just runs™

A lot of people did this at that company as well. But mainly my point was that it might be better to first get productive, or verify you can be productive with the OS you installed before you waste tons of hours configuring it in some obscure ways.

Especially since it was usually the ones straight outta university who did the fancy configuration, tons of alias, custom theming and so on stuff while most senior Devs using Linux just used default Ubuntu, Fedora or whatever installations. Something that just worked.

Dunno if this is an american thing but a lot of these things or similar stuff can still be found at German/ European playgrounds and honestly with most of this things a kid will have way more fun as with those super save, the city is afraid of being sued playgrounds.

E.g. this one here in Cologne, Germany Link to Google maps with pictures

Once worked for a software company where we could run Linux on our machines if we maintained them ourselves and wouldn't ask admins for support since they were only supporting the default windows installations. Right before Christmas new coworker joined, early twenties, got into a project that was apparently hard to get it set up locally, we told him get the project running and then spend time to configure your laptop the way you like it to be. Low and behold, he spends Christmas setting up and configuring some fancy desktop environment on Kubuntu, returns to work, shows off the fancy looks and within a week fails to get the project set up and everyone else in the project was using windows. So one week later he was back using windows and super pissed that he wasted like 5 days configuring his desktop. My heart is still bleeding for that poor guy :(