> What if I say X is we must all stop working and you say Y, we should carry on as we are? > Do we fire half the company? If we can fire half the people curre

> What if I say X is we must all stop working and you say Y, we should carry on as we are? > Do we fire half the company? If we can fire half the people currently working in the economy, stop the pretense that "job" is something meaningful on its own and start dealing with the actual issue, things might actually get so much better! I mean, I'm not sure if the GP committed a fallacy or not (he probably did with that blanket statement), but you picked a bad example.