It's wild to me that tech workers will still downvote stuff like this after the season of layoffs we just had. Google is "trimming the fat" while making 18 billion a quarter. To what end? How about preserving the middle class and ending the monopoly power of these firms?
Because they're temporarily embarrassed founders who could _totally_ see themselves having to make a decision like this.
To the same ends the capitalist class has if they choose. I think the risk is necessary to take, given how the alternative has worked out.