Question

What if, instead of making jet fighter experience a requirement to become an astronaut, NASA instead offered higher salaries to astronauts with jet fighter experience than to those who did not have jet fighter experience

Answer 1

Answer:

In this situation, most of the NASA workforce would still be composed of austronauts with jet fighter experience because they would be lured by the higher wages offered to them.

However, the difference would lie in that there would also be some austronauts without jet figther experience, who would still try to get into NASA, despite being offered lower wages.

This is a different situation to the current one, where jet fighter experience is an requirement to become a NASA austronaut, which means that those without this type of experience are barred from entering NASA, no matter how low of a wage they would be willing to take.