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For obvious reasons, the people who are most able to find a good gig elsewhere are the most likely to elect to go do so; and they tend to be the people that you

For obvious reasons, the people who are most able to find a good gig elsewhere are the most likely to elect to go do so; and they tend to be the people that you'll miss more.

kortilla 1y ago
Im not sure this applies. Good people at NASA were already capable of easily finding higher pay in the private sector. People work at NASA because they believe in the mission. So if they are leaving now they either stopped believing in the future of NASA because of this or they were money motivated and sucked.
- dylan604 1y ago
  > People work at NASA because they believe in the mission. And what exactly is left of the mission now? Not much to keep working for in that regard
  - kortilla 1y ago
    80% of it? The goals of NASA haven’t been fundamentally altered
  - antonvs 1y ago
    The goal seems to be to turn NASA into an agency that manages (read: funnels tax dollars to) private contractors.
indoordin0saur 1y ago
Most of these are just retirees. People who wanted to work at SpaceX over NASA are likely already doing so
BurningFrog 1y ago
True, but it can also be those that dislike the job the most, and they tend to be the people that you'll miss less.
- pklausler 1y ago
  Why would they still be there?