Re:Tech salaries largely unchanged as skills shortages continue
by randomdata on Sunday August 13, 2023 @10:14PM
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> If there would be real shortage, they would increase the salary.
Technically, a shortage occurs when an external mechanism prevents price from rising. Think price gouging laws as once such mechanism.
Where I am from, doctors are prevented from raising their prices in an effort to give equal access to all, rich and poor alike, which would allow for a doctor shortage to transpire. But a real labour shortage outside of such unique situations would be unheard of.
Re:Tech salaries largely unchanged as skills shortages continue
by FirmwareBurner on Monday August 14, 2023 @07:10AM
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>Where I am from, doctors are prevented from raising their prices in an effort to give equal access to all, rich and poor alike, which would allow for a doctor shortage to transpire
Where is this? In Austria the government also caps how much the public doctos can charge, but guess what, most doctors exit the public system and go fully private where they can charge however much they want leaving a shortage in the public system.
They want to saturate the market with massive immigration so the salaries never rise, but when there are too many developers, they can actually push them down. If there would be real shortage, they would increase the salary.