It 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

It 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.