[saiya-jin]

Definitely true in Denmark too, their back in 2010s new tax IT system (skat-something) made a friend of mine who was sub-subcontracted from his 1-man company a wealthy man (wealthy as fully pay for small flat in central Prague, then for big flat a bit more off and then land & building a house a bit further away, only from income from this within few years, with 2 kids and wife not working).

When you get most of daily contractor fees directly, you easily end up with 15,000k$ net monthly income, working mostly remotely, in a country that had median monthly income below 1,000$.

Not that he worked hard or anything, frequently fridays looked like 'ok I am free give me some work' which almost never came. It was done on some ancient long dead weblogic/wslt things, stuff I can hack together in ie apache camel or similar in few afternoons (not 100% of it but core definitely yes).

Definitely a fault of government, no private company will come and say 'hey we can do it in 10% of the time / costs but we wont be using these big brand technologies (TM)'. Can't imagine there wasnt some big corruption too. IIRC prod launch was some major clusterfuck which filled newspapers for some time.