So, after taxes and necessary payments you have about 63% of your salary left.

My net income after taxes (in Sweden) is about 74% of my gross income. Granted I don't have as high salary (about a third of your), meaning I pay a lower percentage in taxes.
The big downside is having a lot of highly educated developers to compete with, driving down the salaries.

The difference being that I've actually chosen to install Java. I've never chosen to install dotnet, yet microsoft continues to push it to me and install extensions to 3rd party products.

Yes, with the software ibm sells, that would be amazing.

No, it just managed to be passed off as a scientist, which is a whole lot easier than being passed off as a normal human.

Agreed, my router reboots itself.