Re:Simultaneous Shortage and Oversupply (2019)
by cxr on Saturday July 18, 2020 @04:15PM
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Not exactly relevant to this context, where the question is "[Why is there] simultaneous shortage and oversupply [of programmers for the EA movement?]".
People don't post job ads or tweet about wanting to work in EA because their friends and family are nagging them about it.
My answer to the question is that people have an idealized version of the person they'd like to be, and this differs from how much work they're actually willing to put in to follow through. This goes for both the people claiming to want to find work and the company (i.e. people) claiming that they're looking for someone to hire. In other words, there is a simultaneous shortage and oversupply because people are flakes.
People don't post job ads or tweet about wanting to work in EA because their friends and family are nagging them about it.
My answer to the question is that people have an idealized version of the person they'd like to be, and this differs from how much work they're actually willing to put in to follow through. This goes for both the people claiming to want to find work and the company (i.e. people) claiming that they're looking for someone to hire. In other words, there is a simultaneous shortage and oversupply because people are flakes.