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Nobody is stealing anything. What they don't realize is that the free market will incentivize people to liberate your valuables into the private sector when gai
by znode 8y ago
Nobody is stealing anything. What they don't realize is that the free market will incentivize people to liberate your valuables into the private sector when gains are better than the potential losses. It's just simple economics.
Obviously facetious, but "stealing" is not some axiomatic boolean that never changes. It's judged differently by different societies depending on time, circumstances, and ideas.
"Raiding" employees was common place. Now there are non-raid agreements. If non-raid agreements became very ubiquitous it would be considered stealing.
Working employees 100 hour weeks with no overtime was commonplace. Now there are labor laws. It would be considered wage theft and exactly "stealing" if you did it today.
"Simple economics" gives you no guidelines to judge any of these things "stealing" or "not stealing".
- GuiA 8y ago“Stealing”, in the USA in 2019, is a statutory offense punishable by law. Making a job offer to an academic that they accept isn’t a statutory offense punishable by law, and therefore is not stealing, no matter how much you play with semantics.
- cuillevel3 8y agoOnly when used in a legal sense. Stealing someones boyfriend for example is not a statutory offense punishable by law.
- GuiA 8y agoYes, and if an academic in an interview brought up boyfriend theft as a concern, it would be as ridiculous as this statement is. Don’t worry about the phenomenon itself, which is 2 entities acting legally and of their own volition. Worry about the systems at play that enable the phenomenon. Universities are clearly not compensating (whether in terms of raw dollars or benefits) AI researchers sufficiently. That’s what one should be concerned about, not “theft” of AI researchers.