The point of the money is to enable conspicuous non housing consumption??

That said I did just quit my job working in a related area

March 22, 2026 - 05:57 UTC

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Okay yeah I do see your point. My view is that a lot of the reason early career staff leave LANL/LLNL is the housing costs specifically. If your pay goes up but the portion of your paycheck that is housing also goes up, it doesn't feel like a gain.
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The crazy thing is we historically knew how to solve this.

But spending money on building housing and amenities for DIB workers fell out of fashion sometime around McNamara's leaving office.
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No amount of pay solves the reality that a lot of these places kinda just suck to live if you are single or don't have kids.
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