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> "That's crazy! Why would anyone hire anyone if they knew they could walk out the door to a competitor, or even to start a competitor? He needs to flip that a
by cortesoft 6y ago
> "That's crazy! Why would anyone hire anyone if they knew they could walk out the door to a competitor, or even to start a competitor?
He needs to flip that around... why would any employee agree to be hired when they can't leave, and can't work on things in their own time?
He doesn't understand that in this industry, it is the workers who are in short supply, not the capital. The best companies go to california and play by these rules because the best workers want to work by those rules.
- fennecfoxen 6y ago"Workers" are abundant. It's the human capital associated with the workers that's expensive. Engineers moving to California should be considered like other capital flows: there are unlikely to be major flows into places where their flexibility is unduly impaired by regulations structured to favor existing, powerful incumbent interests (in this case, the noncompetes).
- cortesoft 6y agoHigh quality software developers are not abundant.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoAnd becoming good at writing software is an investment in your human capital.