We can’t create them either. Think of any system you think is perfectly rational, and then ask yourself by what standard its rationality is determined.

That is a bunch of assumptions right there.

The reality is that businesses often don’t know when more people are needed, don’t have the correct people making the decisions whether to hire even if needed, can’t get the budgets approved even if the hiring mgmt chain is on board, can’t get approval to offer competitive salaries, etc etc.

There are a million reasons why companies don’t hire when they need to, or do hire when they don’t.

Humans aren’t perfectly rational, and can’t create perfectly rational systems.

The actions of an employee, when reviewed and released by a company, are the actions of that company. A company is just the sum of its employees’ actions.