There's been a software engineering labor shortage that's existed since the late aughts. The industry has made limited attempts to ameliorate this condition and

There's been a software engineering labor shortage that's existed since the late aughts. The industry has made limited attempts to ameliorate this condition and instead decided it was just easier to pay people more and offer them perks. It's how the labor market works. There are alternative approaches, such as communism, that have explored alternative approaches to this labor phenomenon. But if you're a capitalist, you're making a school-boy error lamenting about employees being "spoiled". Markets are a thing. Nobody moralizes about a certain grade of steel having a fixed price per unit quantity.