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Comment by logicchains

9 hours ago

They would be looking for work with you if you were offering them better pay and conditions than where they're currently working.

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whatever1  9 hours ago

Money does not fix the supply problem the parent comment pointed out (at least for fields that need multi year training).

Let’s say that tomorrow we need 1M nuclear physicists. How can money help? You still need to wait for the talent pipeline to divert.

  • throwaway85825  9 hours ago

    Fortunately such ridiculous hypotheticals have no correspondence to reality. Most every job can be easily trained or cross trained. Mathematicians make good physicists. Nor is there some foreign pipeline of a million physicists. Such ridiculous argument exist only to perpetuate the lie of a skills shortage and deny the wage shortage.

    • whatever1  3 hours ago

      We don’t need my hypotheticals.

      We saw how well the American bootcamps filled the market with completely trash talent when the market demanded a big number of SDEs.

      So no, money cannot generate infinite specialized talent overnight as you naively assume.

    • doc_ick  7 hours ago

      They may make good physicists, but not great physicists. Similar to saying I know how to drive a car, now let me win the inde 500. Things take to for specialization, even with the advent of guessing and checking machines (llms).

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