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Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts::A medical ethics committee responded to Elon Musk's brain-interface startup issuing an open call for patients yesterday.

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tesla doesn't pay more than other places, so I feel like this person just doesn't make much money and $20k is a huge differential to their hourly wage. Otherwise why not choose another arbitrary number like $50k?

[–] odelik@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At the scales of wages for engineers, project managers, etc, powering these companies, somebody in those positions would be be using a percentage.

20k is 5-15% wage over average wages for most of those job roles and that's easy to find competing offers for and not sell yourself out to overwork yourself if you qualified anyways.