Space-X and its ilk decades earlier? Might not have been too bad...
Except of course half of them might have gone to work for Russia (or those private actors) developing ICBMs and hypersonic missiles. So maybe we'd all be speaking Russian now, praising God-Emperor Putler. (ETA: or Elon or Jeff. But those, probably in English. Small mercies...)
They also paid a full year's bonus for working in December for Y2K, so yes, there is the money.
Even if you have a good PhD, opportunities in physics are very limited. And they don't pay all that well.
Get a job as a quant and it's not remotely hard to earn $500k a year.
A bunch of our brightest spent their energy trying to shove one more ad in your brain.
My country gets this crap all the time.
It’s funny because it’s true.
The joke goes that all those PhDs had to find work, and found well-paying jobs on Wall St, created exotic derivatives, and blew up the world. Then we paid hundreds of billions to solve the 2008 financial crisis.