>>and suddenly they were a rockstar or a computer genius or a rocket scientist or serial killer
Not just around there. Been looking into this kind of shit in my own life, here in the middle of nowhere, and it's kinda jaw-dropping. Seems like 30% of everyone at minimum was brought into the game at some level, while those of us left in the dark tried to figure out exactly what the fuck they'd become.
Not a scientific assessment, just casual observation.
Complicated business. "Companies can't find enough talent" idea comes from Tavistock-inserted cultural narrative that someone needs three PHds just to know how to sweep the goddamn floor–which was done in order to institute a Brave New World sort of caste system having nothing to do with actual ability. HR people, the people who actually do the hiring, can't break out of that mindset because they're retarded. HR people are the people who majored in Psych because it was an easy degree and they were literally too retarded and empty-headed to know what they wanted to be when they grew up. They know nothing about the work they're hiring for, or about real life, or about anything.
So they stick to the program. Their bullshit trickles uphill, because management assumes that they know what they're talking about, when really they're the stupidest motherfuckers in the organization.
Ergo, management thinks there's a shortage of talent when there really isn't. Management hasn't the time to think about such things, so they get fooled along with the rest of us.
I do hope there's a plan for dealing with this.