It doesn't seem like the "business goals" were why the author was fired, I'm not sure where you get that from. It is certainly possible that these companies sim

It doesn't seem like the "business goals" were why the author was fired, I'm not sure where you get that from. It is certainly possible that these companies simply couldn't afford to pay them. So it was a choice between firing them or being financially insolvent. I don't really know how firing one (or a few) people is less desirable over the entire company going under and everyone losing their jobs.