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Agreed. There are also interests that benefit greatly from them them being a highly contested resource with restricted supply. If you are holding gold, you don
by s1artibartfast 2y ago
Agreed. There are also interests that benefit greatly from them them being a highly contested resource with restricted supply.
If you are holding gold, you dont want someone to flood your market with more.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> If you are holding gold, you dont want someone to flood your market with more Right, this is why it’s a stupid analogy. That’s true for gold. But if you’re hiring young, educated people, you do want your country flooded with them.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoIt sounds like we mostly agree on this. To be honest, I was mostly reacting to how you initially responded with a flat negation, so Im not going to steel man a simple analogy as a universal truth. I agree that these analogies all depend on which perspective you are framed in. If you are a hiring manager, you want cheap effective candidates. If you are a worker, you want a labor shortage, at least for your role. Public policy is a whole different mess. It is set by competing self-interested parties and may or may not bear any relation to the aggregate public benefit.