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Four individuals have agreed to be locked inside NASA's Mars simulator for just over a year. And they're being paid surprisingly little.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The current minimum wage in australia is $23.23 when I converted it to USD I got $15.48. It is crazy that they are getting paid less than that for something you would expect to be a high paying job.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

They'd probably be research techs otherwise making way less tbh