I think this is a bit of a slippery slope. In that, if most employers really evaluated what skills they needed over cultural fit and their desire for _The Best_

I think this is a bit of a slippery slope. In that, if most employers really evaluated what skills they needed over cultural fit and their desire for _The Best_ then, I postulate many of these companies would also realize they have absolutely no reason to be paying super high US/EU salaries, especially the salaries for tech talent in the tech hubs. They would realize that they probably just need a kick ass project management framework and access to a pool of low paid but capable programmers (eg. a remote team in India/China/etc). Most startup tech isn't solving any huge tech problems, it's just building to spec/vision and iterating based on feedback and maybe if you're lucky you get to do this under load/at scale.) I know things have been outsourced with countless examples of bad results but I think it's really just a project management problem - not a skills gap (again for most startup tech we see today, but probably a significant portion of enterprise jobs too). I have more of a bootstrap mindset for most things. So I almost never understand the $1M seed funded startups that get an office and hire a few programmers in SV and instantly only have 6 months of runway just to build a Tinder clone or something with little tech complexity. In my mind, they could easily outsource development and spend 90% of their money on sales. Edit: I say "outsource" a lot above, I actually mean remote teammates that you manage