I disagree, cancellation usually means no work for ~2 years before a gentle restart with less work that's less well paid. How well would you survive that? Not

I disagree, cancellation usually means no work for ~2 years before a gentle restart with less work that's less well paid. How well would you survive that? Not purely financially but emotionally. Added to this is that cancellation usually includes criticism from friends. I can not imagine publically criticizing a friend. I've cut people off before, I've criticized friends within social circles even. Criticizing someone for the purposes of strangers I find quite disgusting, akin to tribal excile likely one of the worst traditional punishments of humans probably historically a death sentence. It hits people hard. My hot take, the power of social isolation is why older male suicide is horrifically high following divorce. People on HN collapse if Google shuts their accounts down unexpectedly lol let alone every service and business you've worked with and your friends and family dropping you.