If you can’t lay off people then the economy won’t run and it affects everyone.

Sure you can show easy empathy for the employees but this is how economy runs. A static economy where layoffs are hard or punished will lose to a more dynamic one.

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wiseowise 3 days ago | parent [-]

> Sure you can show easy empathy for the employees but this is how economy runs. A static economy where layoffs are hard or punished will lose to a more dynamic one.

Is that why workers are generally happier in Europe even though on paper their economy loses?

	▲	pedroma 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I've always been skeptical of happiness statistics. In many cases, self-reporting happiness offers an objective floor for happiness, but the ceiling is entirely relative/subjective. The floor is universal: starvation, suffering, death. The ceiling... For someone who's starving & facing death, would simply be good health, easy access to food, healthy family, house & car. But the ceiling for someone who already has these things is different. The ceiling for a billionaire is different. The only way I can imagine not doing this type of subjective self-reporting is... maybe you can draw blood from populations and record cortisol and oxytocin levels?