I think that&#x27;s a bit of an uncharitable reading. He anticipates a similar objection with, &quot;You’d lose out on entry level talent!  Maybe, or maybe <i>part of your operations would be getting to know college kids</i>.&quot; (Emphasis mine.) What I took away from the article is that he&#x27;s suggesting that your company find other ways of developing relationships with outside people, rather than putting out a call for strangers to line up and jump through hoops when they need to hire someone. Another example: So many companies rely heavily on open source software, but how often do they take the opportunity to form relationships with the people who build and maintain it?<p>When you say, &quot;What would fix the problem is for people to define &#x27;desirable&#x27; in different ways, with a bias toward &#x27;the place that I actually ended up at&#x27;,&quot; that seems to me very much what he is suggesting.