I would love to see the corporate cancers fight to the death--except that the surviving cancer always seems to be worse. They never manage mass suicide.
However, you've motivated me to comment on the job market. Some sort of delusional hope that someone will URL a solution at us?
The top people in productivity terms are above the money thing. They are making lots of money, but they are "top" because of their results, not their greed for more money. Basically a paradox where too much greed prevents good results. These people are not recruited by trying to force them to fit into existing holes (AKA job slots), bur rather the recruiting pitch is inverted, and the position is created to let them do what they want to do which coincides with the most valuable thing they can do. Avocation matches vocation situation. If these googlers are available to any other company, it mostly reflects on problems within the work environment and corporate culture of the google.
Below the top people there is a large pool of good people who are recruited in a kind of balanced race to the bottom. Most of the job slots are clearly defined and the corporate objective is to fill each slot with the human who is capable of doing the work for the smallest salary. This seems to be working pretty well for maximizing profits, and the mental horizon is basically limited to the current accounting period. A "future thinker" is considering the next accounting period, too. But it gets worse when AI is brought into the picture, because well-defined slots are the best targets for occupation by AIs and the AI always becomes cheaper than the humans doing the work. Especially convenient that the AIs can scale by simple copying into additional cloud resources.
So most people seem to be becoming increasingly devalued and even unemployable. You may smell another paradox brewing, but only if you are an old fashioned economist who worries about having customers. The newfangled economists are going to fund everything with cryptocurrency games!
In traditional Slashdot joke format:
1. Get best solution from best creator (possibly stolen from competing corporate cancer)
2. Copy solution as needed
3. Dispose of excess humans and their costs
4. PROFIT