If everyone is competing for the top 1%, you're never going to solve the problem.
And of the people with the skills you want, why should they work at your crappy company instead of starting their own?
Try this on for size: "Here, I'll give you a salary and maybe a tiny fraction of equity to come work at my company. But you're over 30 so you'll need to be re-educated."
Why aren't you jumping at the chance!? Oh, maybe other people feel like you do. Imagine that.
If you want to hire talent, you need to pay for it. If you can't pay, then it's no surprise. (Would you work for me for what you're offering to me to work for you?) If you won't pay, then you're not "desperate for talent", you just have a preference for cheap labor.
You're not entitled to a cheap labor pool just so you can live out your personal aspirations to be a CEO. And I like how you expect other people to pay for all that education and training they'll need.
Only the top 1% of people (by creativity) are useful to creative companies. People in the bottom 99% reduce productivity. So yes, creative companies all need to compete for the top 1%.
Even if that top 1% gets bigger in absolute numbers, there will just be more or bigger companies vying for them, so the problem never goes away.
Even if you magically boost everyone drastically so the average person of the future is equivalent to the top person now, imagine how big an advantage the top 1% will still have.
A company that can't get top people is simply not competing well enough in terms of compensation of whatever sort.
An equivalent article could be written on the problems with employers and what they need to do to meet the requirements of the people they want to hire!
And of the people with the skills you want, why should they work at your crappy company instead of starting their own?
Try this on for size: "Here, I'll give you a salary and maybe a tiny fraction of equity to come work at my company. But you're over 30 so you'll need to be re-educated."
Why aren't you jumping at the chance!? Oh, maybe other people feel like you do. Imagine that.
If you want to hire talent, you need to pay for it. If you can't pay, then it's no surprise. (Would you work for me for what you're offering to me to work for you?) If you won't pay, then you're not "desperate for talent", you just have a preference for cheap labor.
You're not entitled to a cheap labor pool just so you can live out your personal aspirations to be a CEO. And I like how you expect other people to pay for all that education and training they'll need.