Comment by throw10920

You know what's extremely reductive and dishonest? Shifting the goalposts from "if you offer enough pay, you can get enough applicants" to "if you offer enough pay, you can get a specific person to take the job".

The original claim was this:

> Only 10% of applicants are physically and mentally qualified? Sounds like you need more applicants? Want to attract more applicants? Offer more compensation.

You then dishonestly moved the goalposts:

> There are plenty of jobs that you can't pay people enough money to want to do.

> The notion that if you just pay enough, people who are otherwise qualified will do anything, is amazingly reductive.

Maybe before accusing people of being reductive, you should respond to the actual point being made instead of moving the goalposts.

> As I've said, plenty of studies have explored the effect and limits of giving more money on happiness, on recruitment, etc, on tons and tons and tons of fields.

None of which you have linked. Go ahead, link a study that says that even offering an unbounded amount of money isn't enough to get enough applicants within the amount of time it takes to go through the training pipeline.