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At the same time, shouldn't this be self-evident? It's a bit depressing that the vast majority of employers would need to be educated about this.
by cauterized 12y ago
At the same time, shouldn't this be self-evident? It's a bit depressing that the vast majority of employers would need to be educated about this.
- solve 12y agoNo, I'd say. The most self-evident thing to do is do whatever is best for yourself in the short term. Any other behavior is increasingly harder to gather... evidence for it being best. It's a two-sided marketplace, each side having a big incentive to take the maximum they can get.
- cauterized 12y agoIn a very short-sighted sense. You treat employees like this and you quickly burn them out (decreasing medium and long term productivity) or create turnover (wasting time recruiting, interviewing, ramping up, and occasionally hiring someone who's wrong for the job). Edited to add: and why does everyone think it's acceptable and even commendable these days to be only out for yourself?
- solve 12y agoMarketplaces are most ruthless and often immoral in their emergent behavior. I'll definitely agree that the results are often bad. I won't agree that anyone should ignore the reality of it though. Realize that it is the most literal definition of a marketplace, and nothing is going to change fundamental fact. Once one accepts that, he'll be much better grasp of how to make it better.
- debacle 12y agoThe American capitalist mantra is that you should only look out for yourself. In a world with a vast liquid labor pool, that means getting as much as you can out of workers.