While it's true that firing or laying off people should be taken very seriously, there is a limit to that. Sometimes the real choice is between losing 10% of yo

While it's true that firing or laying off people should be taken very seriously, there is a limit to that. Sometimes the real choice is between losing 10% of your workforce now vs. losing everything in a year or two. Not only direct employees but suppliers, partners, even customers who have built their own business on something they can no longer support or maintain. It's a trolley problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem While debates about the trolley problem will likely go on forever, the idea of sacrificing a few for the sake of the many is eminently defensible. Companies should do more to avoid this scenario, governments should (a bit more arguably) do what they can to blunt its effects, everyone should treat it with more solemnity, but it can and will and should happen sometimes.