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Do you understand why people who aren't making lots of money from it might be angry and upset about this process?

The ability of the process to prune dead weight and the emotions of the people affected are kind of unrelated. It's a business not a charity.

We should not celebrate sociopathy.

Or short term thinking. Maybe take... I dunno, a couple of weeks to assess people's value? Instead of potentially firing people you actually should have kept around and spending 35% more on salaries for replacements and God knows how much in lost domain knowledge.

Not ethical, not rational.

I'm fine with the argument that its not rational and not a good process because the outcome will be bad (firing people that you should have kept). I'm only pushing back against the idea that a business should put protecting peoples feelings over the wellbeing of the company. Sure do it humanely. Give a nice severance. But if people aren't producing the company has no obligation to keep them.

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