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> lack of willingness on the side of companies to actually develop talent.

Do you have any ideas about how to match the kind of compensation so that it is aligned with that investment. If I employ somebody and build up their skills, what's to stop them from just jumping ship and capturing the payoff for my investment all for themselves?

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> jumping ship and capturing the payoff for my investment all for themselves?

Tragedy of the commons. Coase theorem.

> what's to stop

Reciprocity. If an employer is good to me, I'm inclined to be good to that employer in return. If an employer acts like a greedy self-interested econ, then I, too, will act like a greedy self-interested econ.

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