At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race
arstechnica.com
A 24 year-old AI researcher will earn 327x what Oppenheimer made while developing the atomic bomb.
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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/YourMomThinksImSexy on 2025-08-02 22:04:39+00:00.

Original Title: Employers have so much money that they could pay their top employees just a little less and it would allow them to pay the rest their employees much better wages…instead they choose to keep the majority of their workforce earning a wage they can barely survive on.

Zuckerberg just offered a single AI software engineer a BILLION dollar package, while tens of thousands of his employees earn less than a living wage.

Thousands of Tesla’s employees earn less than a living wage. Elon Musk could dedicate a single billion dollars of his $398 billion net worth and it would:

  • Fund a $5/hour raise for 28,000 workers for 3+ years.

  • Permanently close the living wage gap for thousands of his employees.

  • Cost Musk less than a day’s net worth growth during a good Tesla stock year.

The same goes for Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

Our world is broken.