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Now would be an excellent time to ask how safe it is to underpay top scientists & engineers relative to say Investment Bankers, VCs or mgmt consultants.

Because you‘ve been habituated to bargain basement pricing for skills valued by our military rivals.

Close eyes. Open wallet.
Also, all your dumb US kids you were told couldn’t do STEM? That was a lie.

And those terrible Thiel fellowships paying kids to drop out? That was partially about saving folks from student debt that couldn’t be discharged in bankruptcy. I know. You were told it was evil. 🤷‍♀️
Also H1-b for the “Best and Brightest”...um...this is so awkward...those visas tethered foreign workers to employer-sponsors so they couldn’t respond to wage signals. Yep. But we called bosses “Technologists” to confuse folks. Beastly but clever, right? Object? You’re xenophobic!
It’s going to take a while to wake up to what the STEM workforce & US research university network mutated into being. Think of how you used to see Bear Stearns or AIG, but before 2007. That’s where we are now.

Nothing is how it appears. Let’s let events unfold a bit more though.
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