[braindouche]

Have you ever been laid off? Because that's EXACTLY how it happens. The young, new, and expensively specialized are dumped first. (It's less about hard and soft skills than it is about generalist vs specialist, and business school preaches that management science is a generalist practice.)

[slimscsi]

I have, and the companies then failed. Because without the developers, bugs weren't getting fixed, and new features weren't getting developed. If they trimmed from the middle, killing the layer of middle management first, they may still have failed, but not as quickly. The middle managers cost more than the developers, and by not maintaining the products they would not have shed paying customers as quickly.