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Re:Thank You MDN by tasuki on Thursday August 13, 2020 @02:55AM (#24140663)
On the contrary - in a world with 8 billion people it's pretty much guaranteed there's someone worth that much money to a company!
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Re:Thank You MDN by pintxo on Thursday August 13, 2020 @08:41AM (#24142726)
But it's ~hard to know if~ unlikely your CEO is this single person out of 8 billion, especially because you only considered searching in a pool of optimistically maybe 1 thousand candidates.
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Re:Thank You MDN by mattigames on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:37PM (#24148635)
The graph for skilled people available for any given position with "skill" on the Y axis and "people" in the X axis is not shaped like a triangle like you are imaging, is shaped like a plateau. The only exception are extremely niche skills.
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