[austin-cheney]

The goal is hiring/firing everything else be damned. It’s weirder than it sounds.

To increase hiring you introduce conventions to lower the barrier of entry. This means less qualified, skilled, experienced, or competent people can participate with near equivalent performance. The cost is a form of vendor lock-in and generally shitty output that costs more to build and maintain.

In theory this also makes developers easier to replace because they are a cheap common commodity. In reality firing people requires legal safety, so it’s also more expensive than cheap conventions can allow.

This is weird because wages are not declining. Businesses accept the rising wages in exchange for not having to pay for continuing education, licensing recertification, training, or other career maintenance.