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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'll miss more.
Won't these people just wind up at Lockheed, Raytheon etc.. doing the same work for their customer NASA?
Some will. Others will get hefty signing bonuses from other countries seeing an excellent opportunity to recruit entire already-functional and already-proven teams at once.
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Efficiency is important for public institutions but not the highest priority. The highest priority is public service. These institutions should have public good as their north star, not shareholder value
How are those any different considering the public are essentially the shareholders.
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Turns out people like Trump and Gabbard might be smarter than they appear. It's just a pity that they use that against the US.
They aren’t.
For a long time Trump has been repeating Russian talking points like he invented them. The best asset is the one who never sees how he’s being played.
Only recently Trump has realized that Putin doesn’t actually do what he says, and you can tell he is genuinely surprised by this revelation.
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If you were acting on behalf of the other players in the sequel, these would be great moves.
Turns out people like Trump and Gabbard might be smarter than they appear. It's just a pity that they use that against the US.
In this case, all of the downsizing that has been happening is right out of the Heritage Foundation playbook, literally.
And those plans are largely a manifestation of Kevin Roberts' political beliefs. He, in his book, has said things such as:
> "many of America's institutions...need to be burned"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn%27s_Early_Light:_Taking_B...
This executive has been criticized as using a hatchet and not a scalpel in their downsizing options precisely because their fundamental driving belief is that all of it is waste and abuse. They don't want any of it.
They'll do this now and then act shocked when some of these ex nasa people end up working in Europe or China lol
Eh. I'm not saying it's a great scheme, but these are almost all people taking retirement a couple years early. China is not interested in stealing 1980s NASA tech, and Europe aerospace is a non-player.
I bet plenty have that useful "unwritten institutional knowledge" that could help newer programs. (F.ex. instructions for a nuclear waste storage said to use kitty litter, but didn't say it was because it was a cheap source of bentonite clay; someone substituted some modern paper variant and caused a small nuclear incident).