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by trident5000 950 days ago
What a ridiculous take. There are limited job openings and thats a constant for any company (thats demand). Then there are people to fill those positions (thats supply). You shift the demand/supply balance by expanding the supply pool. This is an extremely simple concept that you've somehow made complicated for yourself.

People are not damand, I have no idea what that even means in the relevant context.

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> There are limited job openings and thats a constant for any company (thats demand).

The number of job openings isn't constant over longer than like a day. What you're doing here is called partial equilibrium analysis.

> People are not damand, I have no idea what that even means in the relevant context.

That you missed econ 201?

People are demand because they buy things. Employees increase demand for other employees because jobs are created by "comparative advantage", and as long as your company is growing it's not possible to run out of that, although it does grow more specialized.