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Do governments allow some of their employees to be highly compensated relative to others? Would someone with real expertise in chip development work for the gov
by fspeech 1y ago
Do governments allow some of their employees to be highly compensated relative to others? Would someone with real expertise in chip development work for the government at what the government is willing to pay? I think the answer is no.
- wmf 1y agoThe Chinese government has definitely "bought back" some top talent from the US. It's probably a small number of people. I'm not sure why local governments would get involved although in general China has had a problem with too much investment and not enough places for it to go. It's not impossible that there are essentially local sovereign wealth funds.
- fspeech 1y agoThey work at companies or universities, and there is a "market" to look to for the pay scale.
- dghlsakjg 1y agoThis initiative seems to be a private company propped up by government funds rather than direct government employment. Think Lockheed Martin not DARPA.