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The phony talent shortage/talent war scam
Professor8 1st Dec 2007
You should warn readers to pull on their waders.

There has been no shortage of science and tech
talent. There is no shortage of science and tech
talent, and you've failed to provide any evidence of
impending shortage. Nor have you provided any
evidence that executives are going to any great effort
to recruit. If they were, we'd be seeing hundreds of
help-wanted job ads for full-time permanent science
and tech people in every major paper in the country,
and the web job boards would similarly be over-
flowing. Instead, the vast majority of on-line ads are
mere body shopping -- temporary gigs, programming
"services", etc.

You did not look, for instance, at increasing life
expectancies, which now reach over 80 years for
adults.

The only war is a competition amongst spoiled
executives in business and academe to see who can
whine "shortage" the loudest, and laugh to the bank
with the difference between competitive wages and
what they can get by flooding the job markets with
artificially vast excesses.
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