[droopybuns]

Loss of revenue puts people at risk of famine and indentured servitude.

This isn't a cultural thing. Human evolution is ugly. Evolution's filter function is death. If you can't feed yourself, nature will use you for food.

You are coming from a place of extreme privilege lamenting that people get stressed about losing a job. It's not a minor inconvenience if you're working on something you think is important. Button pushers have little to mourn. People working on big projects have to establish new goals for themselves & align themselves with an entirely new professional network. These are not minor things.

[Andrew_nenakhov]

He is not coming from a place of extreme privilege. He is coming to it. In good times people here on HN publicly argue about ways of squeezing every possible dollar from their employers, talking about compensation, options, bonuses and such, easily changing jobs for better money, always feeling very special and productive.

This is a reality check: if you are productive and make the company $2M per year while costing only $350k per year, your job security is fine. If you do some work that company can live without, you're probably not as productive as you thought you were. Maybe it is time to adjust your self-esteem and expectations to the market reality.