dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) (09/18/88)
From article <338@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer),
as quoted by others, about misc.jobs.wanted:
Aside from those taken from schools, each applicant hired from the
net is hired away from another net company. No "net" gain.
I think there *is* a net gain. First, the same companies whose
employees get hired away can also hire new employees through the same
medium, so it at least balances out. Second, there is a net benefit to
the entire economic system. Each employee hired away from one company
to another becomes more productive, if productivity is measured by how
much the person is worth to the employer. (You don't hire away
people by offering them less than they are already earning.)
As people change jobs, they move up the ranks. Their position are
filled with people who are lower in the ranks. It's just like people
getting promoted within a single company, but on a much bigger scale.
Each time somebody moves to a higher-paying job, somebody *else* sees a
new opportunity open up (to fill this now-vacant position). We all
benefit. This is very far from being a zero-sum game.
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