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NASA to lay off more than 500 employees
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is this a parody comment wut
I'm a libertarian socialist that believes in the power of free markets, infinite growth, and profits chasing
I'm not sure if you're agreeing that you're a parody or not so I'll give a short serious answer.
NASA being underfunded and bloated is intentional. It was neither of those things in the 1950s and 60s, but since Nixon got the moon landing he wanted the whole point of NASA has shifted from pushing the boundaries of space exploration to providing key technologies to the private sector, and over time everything NASA does has become about feeding money to private corporations.
Meanwhile SpaceX underpays and overworks its engineers to the point of a psychotic break as its normal policy. It is currently the place that you tough out for a year or two to get it on your resume, and then flee as fast and as far as you can to a more reasonable job. Everything SpaceX is doing could be done for half price without giving a generation of aerospace scientists PTSD by NASA if they were funded properly and not intentionally hogtied by Congress and the military.
SpaceX lists entry level Engineering positions for $115-185k and is hiring an incredibly young crowd (i.e. this isn't gated by a huge amount of experience) so I don't know that you could say they are underpaid but the hours are clearly hellish and it seems unbelievably disorganized. But yes to the rest, it seems a lot like what Amazon was to software devs.
You're not getting paid $115k as an early career hire there for most roles. Have several friends there and, compared to the rest of the LA aersopace market, it's probably a $10-20k cut.