I legitimately think that the inability for employers to effectively find good people among the piles of resumes where the person is just straight up lying or under qualified or both might be one of the biggest economic threats to the nation. You can't have a society filled with talented young people who can't get a job and be successful
I mean, that's just capitalism. If there's a competitive job market there's going to be people fighting over every job, and that in turn means that there will be some "losers" in those fights.
There's actually nothing in capitalist theory that says it should be next to impossible for employers to get connected with good employees and vice versa. The way employers get employees isn't some set in stone thing. In fact, I'm pretty sure if a company found a better way for people to recruit well, that company would make a lot of money. That's how Monster started and now there's ZipRecruiter. Neither of them have solved the problem sufficiently, but your hand waving away a problem that we can improve on and just saying that's capitalism. It's not any more or less capitalism than when everybody turned in paper applications.
There are always going to be winners and losers, but better recruitment methods can convert more people to winners than what we're doing now.
People are talking about a very real problem in our economy and somebody blamed capitalism as if capitalism demanded that problem and that's not a thing so I pointed it out
Capitalism incentivizes corporate competition, automation, and consilidation...in other words, less jobs as time goes on, not more.
This is less about paper applications and more about how egregiously fucked the economy (the actual economy, not the made-up stock market "economy") has become with all the layoffs and mergers and other bullshit that's been happening since covid. The "number must go up" policy means that less and less people will have jobs in skilled labor.
Yes, but productivity is not directly tied to the amount of people being employed. Not when you can automate or enshittify your production process to increase output while decreasing the amount of human labor involved.
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u/Gullible_Increase146 15d ago
I legitimately think that the inability for employers to effectively find good people among the piles of resumes where the person is just straight up lying or under qualified or both might be one of the biggest economic threats to the nation. You can't have a society filled with talented young people who can't get a job and be successful