Imagine a perfect labor market where doing anything takes an employee 5 years. Ie if they don’t stay 5 years, the output value is 0, salary is sunk cost. Imagine employees are perfectly mercenary and will switch instantly if offered a better salary.
How does this market evolve?
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Is that a rhetorical question? Probably would look a lot like the market your readers are engaged in.
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It’s a theoretical economics question. I’m trying to understand incentives for long-term employment.
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IMO the software engineer hiring marketplace already has that structure implicitly it'd just be too stressful for most people to deal with that sort of negotiation
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