[mulmen]

Slicing at random would leave the same ratio of worker types. Random slices have the potential to cause enormous damage by removing critical contributors while also creating exploitable power vacuums. The actual solution is to just continue operating the way NASA has been operating because it's not actually a problem.

[ACCount36]

Not actually a problem? Have you seen what NASA is doing lately?

SLS. Orion. Gateway. Ambitionless Artemis. JPL's disaster of an MSR proposal. NASA reeks of rot and decay. It's not in a good place, and hasn't been in a long time now.

If you "just continue operating", it's only going to get worse.

[mulmen]

SLS is Congress, not NASA. The core mission of NASA is space exploration and their achievements in that domain are unparalleled.

Randomly firing and cutting funding isn’t a solution. Especially not to a perceived problem. If you think the spending is excessive you have to do the hard work of explaining why and then the even harder work of fixing it. If that seems too hard then yeah, it’s fine.