> Some buyers are more rational than others. I guess that is the crux of my disagreement with your original post. So many buyers are being irrational despite

> Some buyers are more rational than others. I guess that is the crux of my disagreement with your original post. So many buyers are being irrational despite claims that they can't (or shouldn't) be able to get away with it. To adapt an old idiom, they are trying to be beggars and choosers. Since they aren't failing to get things done despite being irrational, I have to conclude that most of the shortage is self-imposed by that irrationality and that, were these companies to fix their talent acquisition practices, the shortage would go away.