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by flappyeagle 1184 days ago
Often it’s extremely misguided. It’s better for people to work at a job they don’t struggle with. Fire them and move on so they can too
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If people didn't need jobs to have food and shelter you might have a point, but as it is our society is constructed such that even the time it takes to find a new job will have significant impact on most people's ability to pay for basic necessities.

Maybe we should fix that? Nah, let's just treat people like expendable resources so we don't have to increase taxes on the wealth elite who never need be concerned with such things.

That’s what severance is for