Comment by acqq
5 years ago
The principle would be just nice if it were true, but it has different assumptions that don't hold in quite many situations.
To me, it appears it presumes almost something like Santa Claus existing world, where "everybody gets what he deserves" (where you "evaporate" to some place better for you) which isn't how typically the world functions.
Moreover the concept of "talent" is involved in the principle, which is not something that I would use as the name of the property that I would use for selection of people who'd work on some project.
Yeah, I can't help but detect some wishful thinking on the part of the author. If you're asserting some principle, there ought to be an objective way to validate it - so, how do you know? If it's really true that "the best people will always leave", they'll leave the next employer after they left you. So, the best people are definitionally the people who never keep any job for any appreciable amount of time? How could you possibly measure their contribution anywhere?