> But the point is everyone is expendable. In the extremum, everyone is expendable, but not everyone is equally expendable, as your own anecdote bears out. Wh

> But the point is everyone is expendable. In the extremum, everyone is expendable, but not everyone is equally expendable, as your own anecdote bears out. When you expend enough people, especially increasingly less expendable people who carry your basic institutional knowledge and skills, you do so by inflicting damage on your company or organization. The economic winds may dictate that, as they did frequently in the 2008 economic crisis, but it's not like there is no institutional cost to expending people. This is the basically why countries like Germany and the UK are paying employers to keep idled people on payroll.