Additionally, companies doing common pool hiring are worsening the situation even further. One bad interview day or one failure to solve complex riddle means that you're not good for any teams within that company until cool-off time passes which is typically from 6 months to 1 year. The system of cool-off period is equally brutal.
Do not ignore cultural differences. If you see such an activity as a job, then you would arrive at a conclusion like yours.
In India, it's common for hosts to serve food as a sign of respect to their guests. Close friends and family of hosts also join. This only showed the closeness of the relationships among Mukesh and other stars. Seeing it as a subservient act isn't accurate, no big star would sign up if it were so.
Society in India has been getting more progressive over the years. Compare any decade with previous decade and see the difference. It's a trait and gift of democracy, people with access to information adapt themselves to be compatible with modern ideas. There'll always be two sides like in any other countries, but balance is easily achievable.
Do you think that matters one bit to those who advocate for these kinds of measures? Not everyone is a proponent of free markets, and some of them are in positions of power - and this kind of measure should illustrate that in abundance.
Unless they take into account modern things like travel time (was probably a bigger factor decades ago with fewer connecting and long-distance flights), ref nationality (used to be a huge point of contention for accusations of favoritism, now probably less so because of video), VAR (maybe some teams are better at getting away with dirty tricks than others, but now can't with video review), etc.
I'm sure an accurate model has to be updated as culture and technology changes and impacts the game itself.
My main reason for shopping from Amazon is that I do not want to sign up separately on many retailer's websites. E.g. target, best buy, Walmart, ...
If there is a single sign-on option which provides good enough data safety & privacy, lot of my shopping will move away from Amazon to this virtual YC 2019 company.
