789itsfine

There is an argument to be made wrt the deleterious effects of modern recruitment's overreliance on informal personal networks.

This is where terms like "cycles of poverty/abuse", "equality of outcome", "welfare", and the like come into play, erroneously or not. Although it may vex a not-insignificant number of people: if one accepts that the state of the parent's life largely determines the state of the life of even the most talented or determined youth, it must also be accepted that any useful intervention is going to assist the parents in concert with the child. In fact, if we accept that there is a sort of psychosocial inheritance from even our dead forebears, we must also see to the rectification of their troubles, as much as we may be able to.

I think we all know what we're talking about when we use terms like "street smarts" and "streetwise" instead of "common sense" or "vigilance" or "poise". So, then, I'm hoping that there's clarity with regards to the kinds of policies the above statements, if accepted, should lead us to support. I'm trying not to state them directly because their utterance tends to lead to a kneejerk reaction; let's see if some rhetorical remove is helpful in quelling passions.

The number of children born to a given family has fluctuated over time. It's not absurd to say that the shape of our society influences family planning.

In fact, there are capitalist countries (coughJapan) where encouraging baby-making, in the face of a demographic crisis that threatens to catastrophically disrupt economic stability, is state policy.

That's a pyramid scheme. An MLM is (supposed to be) when product sales can still sustain the business at a marginal level, even while employing the same model of worthwhile profit being based on how many people you recruit. Of course, it's probable that many businesses that pass themselves off as MLMs are, in actuality, pyramid schemes that are able to hide their non-viability well.

As someone looking for a job, can corroborate. I can't tell you how many listings I see are for positions at recruiting firms. What kind of recruiting firm, you may ask? Why, the kind that finds technical recruiters for other companies, of course.

In this case, the problem is the overblown enthusiasm for 10x-type employees - because no one trains anymore - and the lengths companies will go to find them. Contrary to the situation described in the article, the end goal is to find singular workers who can be paid exorbitant salaries (but still less than the cost of the teams they'd replace). It's a very difficult problem, so if you're unsuccessful, the next best option is to simply outsource responsibility. The MLM-ization of society is something akin to cancer, in that the causes are multitudinous.