Could you be any more hyperbolic and disconnected from reality? Laying people off from a mismanaged company the spends too much (even by their own admission, because look at the hundreds of companies laying people off who don't have shareholders begging them to do so) is a sociopathic medieval process? Get a grip.
Please don't break the site guidelines like this. I realize the parent comment was provocative and a borderline guidelines violation in its own right, but going full flamewar is exactly the wrong way to respond. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Note this one:
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."
Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly lately. Comments like these are not ok on HN, and we ban accounts that make a habit of it:
