Can we offer them some understanding and sympathy?
> promise them unprecedented compensation
They were promised and received uncompensated compensation. No promises of indefinite employment were ever given, and it’s a bit naive to assume boom times never end. I think it’s fair to make this point too, even if on an individual level I sympathize with pretty much anyone that loses their job.
Obviously this is going to happen, I am not shocked or surprised and I get how it can cause anxiety to emerge.
I do think there's a connection between resilience (as you observed in your other response) and entitlement. I am not sure which way causality flows but you wrote: "promise them unprecedented compensation" - I feel like there's also a realistic mindset that should go with interpreting that: I am hired to do a job and things could change (vs something like I get this comp because the universe knows I am the shit or something like that)
If you make over 200k a year in a booming market, no.
Are you some sort of bad person for making what the market pays you?
It reeks of jealousy and brazen callousness because someone has secured compensation outside their reach or imagination.
I don’t get it.