Is it really due to proportions? In that case say you leave a startup of 3 people. Not the same as company firing one guy, but roughly 1/3rd impact, so 2 month

Is it really due to proportions? In that case say you leave a startup of 3 people. Not the same as company firing one guy, but roughly 1/3rd impact, so 2 months of free severance labor is on you, correct, to avoid being "disgusting"? Or if you happen to be a particularly valuable, hard-to-replace specialist; or happen to have unique knowledge of some legacy systems that nobody else can maintain, your impact can be order-of-magnitude comparable to being fired (in fact, the impact of you being fired might be lower for you than the impact of you leaving is for the company because you might find the next job very easily) and you would owe /some/ free labor, right? Exact proportions TBD. Don't get me wrong, I'd love a ton of severance if I was laid off. But I don't suffer for excusitis and don't contort morality into some ridiculous fairness arguments. I am just selfish and I like money, so hey, I wouldn't mind some.