Um so as a staffer in Congress the average pay is much worse than the private sector without any of the good benefits. Factor in that it is incredibly hard to own a gun in DC not to mention we can’t even take pepper spray into the Congressional Office buildings I’d say we are pretty defenseless.

I don’t work in the headline grabbing area or where you would get click bait. I work in the basic sciences area with the National Labs, with academia, with moonshot projects. One day one of these projects could change everything and we are seeing that with quantum computing and hell AI came from the National Labs as well.