Suppose you are an alien. You have been asked to audit the American labor-and-virtue machine of the early twenty-first century. You will notice at once that the regime does not import people because it lacks hands. It imports people because it lacks a story. Cheap service labor is only the pretext. The real product is…
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Successful Companies are the Worst
I worked for a company that was failing once. One day I came in and the doors were locked. That was the end of it. The market had changed. No one had decided to hurt me in particular. It was simply over, and when it happened I felt almost nothing. Later I worked for a…
Hiring Talent
I heard from my buddies in HR that hiring tech talent has become like trying to find a needle in a haystack. But it’s like someone dumped another haystack on top of your haystack. And then they threw in some extra needles just to mess with you. Since Trudeau turned on the labor faucet, it’s…