And you should always finish your dinner because there's starving children in Africa. The terrible state of IT recruitment is a legitimate issue and trying to

And you should always finish your dinner because there's starving children in Africa. The terrible state of IT recruitment is a legitimate issue and trying to derail discussion of it in this way is obnoxious. Also, there's not millions of viable candidates for software development roles who are unemployed. If there were, salaries would be dropping and there'd be no cold calls from recruiters. The people you're talking about - while potentially highly skilled in other areas - would hate to get that call just as much as the author, as it would be a job they couldn't do and a waste of their time. (Not to mention demoralising.)