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139 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Feb \ on: The big idea: Charge $1 to apply to a job (hear me out) econ
It will be necessary, unless we want the labor market to devolve into pure nepotism (that's the other solution I can think of).
I had a job that involved reviewing applications and it was already a firehose of low quality submissions. I can only imagine what it's turning into now.
It's interesting that nepotism is not a bad solution in some ways, although we can all readily think of its shortcomings. There's a reputation to maintain by both parties, there's identity to individuate, etc. We discount those forces, but they're very powerful, and have offsetting virtues than does "merit".
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In a lot of ways, it's kind of nuts that we just expect to pull from the general pool of anonymous people.
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Certainly it's more nuts than our modern default way of believing is, where the nepotistic strategy seems totally bonkers, and the "merit-based" way seems without drawbacks.
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