It's kind of like all of the threads that I've been reading from smart, well-paid engineers lately bemoaning that unprofitable startup companies should be offer

It's kind of like all of the threads that I've been reading from smart, well-paid engineers lately bemoaning that unprofitable startup companies should be offering softer landings for mass layoffs. They have all of this fuzzy thinking around how in this economy broken companies that can't raise any more money are going to somehow take out loans to give people a year of severance... No profession is immune from practitioners being completely disconnected from reality. We are not geniuses simply because we do X.