If you think that this is a broken system and not working exactly as intended, you are delusional. The system serves many purposes including: making it harder to leave your job, thus suppressing wage growth, making candidates less likely to negotiate or leverage multiple offers, thus suppressing wage growth, and making it easier to argue that they “just can’t fill” their ghost jobs and must outsource or import labor, thus suppressing wage growth.
Any conservative CEO would argue passionately about how difficult job applications build character and show grit and select for the only type of people he wants in that company.
If you think that this is a broken system and not working exactly as intended, you are delusional. The system serves many purposes including: making it harder to leave your job, thus suppressing wage growth, making candidates less likely to negotiate or leverage multiple offers, thus suppressing wage growth, and making it easier to argue that they “just can’t fill” their ghost jobs and must outsource or import labor, thus suppressing wage growth.
I heard something like that once, it went something like this: “if you see poor people under capitalism it’s not a bug it’s a feature”
Something working as intended can still be broken.
Any conservative CEO would argue passionately about how difficult job applications build character and show grit and select for the only type of people he wants in that company.