[logfromblammo]

Because human resources are mined, not grown.

It's because recent trends in corporate management have prioritized cost cutting over re-investing in the company's assets. Besides that, training is a dangerous investment when your employees are all "at will". They could take the training and then flip to your competitor, and there's nothing you could do about it.

...other than, perhaps, paying them what they are worth and giving them a measure of basic human dignity. But you can't put that on the quarterly reports!

[vonmoltke]

CFO asks his CEO, “What happens if we invest in developing our people and then they leave the company?” CEO answers, ‘What happens if we don’t, and they stay?”

Variations of that exchange float around the intertubes, but its really true. I saw it first-hand at a defense contractor that mostly reserved enrichment training for those being groomed for bigger things.