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shminux comments on Biomedical research, superstars, and innovation - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: shminux 17 March 2014 01:14:03AM -1 points [-]

John would prefer a good person in his lab to an extra £0.5mn in annual funding.

but he would prefer not having that good person over paying her £0.5mn annually. His real preference is to pay only a "fair" salary over getting the job done. In fact, he'd, in all likelihood, rather contract out a £0.5mn job to an external company than pay the same amount as a salary internally.