Jobs aren't created out of the largess of your employer.
Your employer's also the one looking for a talented employee.
Your employer's also the one looking for a talented employee.
This, 1000 times. How can it be 2016 and we are still having this discussion? Particularly with the group on HN, who are generally speaking extremely valuable and highly trained.
If you do not bring value to your employer, you will be fired. That might be a highly liquid, difficult to characterize value, but it is undeniably a value-add.