That's a secret language those folks speak, and you gotta understand it the right way. Whenever they say there's not enough talent or over in Europe "there's a skilled worker shortage," you can't take that as the actual truth.
They're speaking Corporate-Speak, which is like a whole different language. The translation into normal talk would be:
"There are definitely enough skilled folks for all the jobs out there, but there's no extra supply that lets us keep the upper hand in salary talks."
That means they'd have to pay these pretty rare talents what they're worth. After all, those people have put a ton of time into their education, training and work experience. Time that corporate assholes just don't wanna shell out for, they're too stingy and figure "theplebs should cover that themselves." Cause they want an economy that's easy for them, meaning just pay for the direct work. Not for all the upfront investment it takes.
And from this pool of talented plebs, they want as many as they can get so they can keep wages low, basically drive the price down. Then they start yapping about "international competitiveness" and all that bullshit.
A study from years back actually showed (this topic isn't new) that if there are 7 applicants for a job, these guys already start sweating bullets out of fear. Then they yell "skilled worker shortage" to the media and their politician puppets. And those puppets set up talent drains from other countries so they end up with 10 applicants per spot instead of 7. Cause those poor plebs still buy into the old myth that working in Europe or the US is way better than in their totally broke and openly corrupt home countries.
Politician talk is just corporate talk. It's a completely different language from what we normal people use. You gotta keep that in mind with everything they spit out.
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