Good point. I didn’t mean the stack ranking thing, which is also degrading, stress inducing, and bad for morale! Much less the scandalous hire-to-fire. I was

Good point. I didn’t mean the stack ranking thing, which is also degrading, stress inducing, and bad for morale! Much less the scandalous hire-to-fire. I was specifically addressing the phenomenon described in the article, where the threat of the large number in future is demoralizing and destructive. Reasonable people can consider them facets of the same phenomenon.