[ClumsyPilot]

> government having a robust social safety net (funded by taxes)

I don't buy this - not any more. These companies are going to need these employees next year, when demand picks up again.

This is pure folly of management. The problem is upper management never pays for their mistakes. I know a company that fired it's last Perl developer and their payment system was written in perl. They literslly couldn't take payment for like 2 months becaus of it. You think the guy that made this decision has lost any sleep?

This is like just in time supply chain - lets keep zero stock on hand to 'optimise'. Oh shit, we cant get shipment in time because of disruption/flood/covid. Now we are loosing money. Well, the guy that made the decision doesn't care.

What we are seeing across the west, is that companies are destoying the base of skilled middle class employees that they actually need to operate. This is happening on purpose.

After the base is destroyed, they will beg for gobernment subsidies to compete. They basically use taxoater money to pad their profit margins