the key phrase of the article is "Nothing kills your company's culture like layoffs" I think that company culture stands for a framework that enables internal

the key phrase of the article is "Nothing kills your company's culture like layoffs" I think that company culture stands for a framework that enables internal cooperation within the company. Now i am not sure if cooperation is currently valued over internal competition in the tech industry, but my impression is that the opposite is the case for most shops. So the question is: how did we get here? what are the factors that have led to the prevailing choice of priorities? The article says its the stock market that values short term gains over anything else. Now maybe its really because running fast and breaking things is the only way we know how to do things in tech?