No one said that a company is mugging anyone. The point of the analogy is that failure to prepare doesn’t preclude being a victim. Most societies recognize tha

No one said that a company is mugging anyone. The point of the analogy is that failure to prepare doesn’t preclude being a victim. Most societies recognize that the employer to employee relationship is unbalanced in favor of the employer in a way that consumer to grocery store isn’t. Unemployment insurance, and severance requirements wouldn’t be necessary if the relationship were really the equally balanced market transaction you think that it is. Even the executives who do the laying off recognize the harm they are causing. I’ve been on calls with CEOs who were crying because they recognized (or wanted to appear that they recognized) the harm they were causing even if they thought it was justified. Victim is a perfectly reasonable word to describe the people on the receiving end of that harm.