[Svartalfiar]

And the employer ends up hiring 2 or 3 of the cheaper labor to replace the one employee whose insights and experience went out the door.

Yup, one of the companies I worked for tried to do this, using the knowledgeable people for sets, and dropping little kids into the actual shows getting 3-4x as many hours. So when stuff goes wrong, and the kids don't know how to troubleshoot the backend, they tried calling a bunch of the experienced guys to fix it asap. But, well, sorry, I can't come in to help cause I was just scheduled to set. That really sucks. What, your kid op can't do it? Then why did you have him scheduled on the show?

[pierrem15]

That’s also a consequence of the falling price of labor— it gets wasted more easily.