I think Musk wants to start over, and a first step is to cut drastically. That’s a new management plan and is not the responsibility of the employees, who were

I think Musk wants to start over, and a first step is to cut drastically. That’s a new management plan and is not the responsibility of the employees, who were delivering on the goals of the old plan. It’s a layoff, and requires notification of employees, unemployment benefits, and usually some severance package, too. It’s really dirty pool to invent a reason to fire people in order to avoid those obligations.