[basch]

In theory, this would become some type of exploitable game theory.

Send out offer letters to companies most indispensable people, just to jack up your competitors labor costs. Arms race. Eventual mutually assured destruction.

[ttyprintk]

The fraudulent offer letters notwithstanding, I think insiders would see this as an opportunity for Moneyball rather than a risk of unraveling in confusion.

Moneyball as in an optimization technique when roles are static. Obviously this is generic because static data of any value inevitably ends up in a spreadsheet. Otherwise, I’m not sure game theory holds together here.

[fire_lake]

Companies did engage in the reverse of this, to keep salaries down.

[imhoguy]

That is capitalism.