Re: -I- Greetings...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Nathan Dykman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I do believe in free markets, but I'm not sure that means
>> the free exchange of labor and jobs.
>
> because labor and jobs aren't part of the market.  ;)

There's certainly a supply-and-demand, competition-y thing going on.

For instance, whenever I apply for a job, I'm competing for a
first-stage interview with a signicant number of people who were laid
off from a very similar job in the somewhat recent past.  And
probably not a few who were laid off from a higher-ranking job.

And this large supply of labor, relative to the demand, means that the
employer can cheerfully drop my application on the floor because I
don't have experience in their particular sub-industry, or because I
don't have experience with some specific instance of technology they
use, or because the phase of the moon is misaligned with respect to
the numerological properties of my cover letter.


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