Humanity solves this by having an entrepreneur that just wants to have a business up & running in a sustainable, bootstrapped way, that will give jobs to X people earning Y in salary, while the founder in the long run will earn 5-7Y salary. Instead of having founders that want to be billionaires with VC money in a 5 years time-frame. There is still risk, and a business might fail and jobs be lost, but the scale is different.

Therefore coming back to my initial comment: the very system we live in is based on this conception that we have to forego treating people like humans and have to consider them as mere "resources" just to make it work. Not pretending like I have a solution in the current context. It just will never sit right with me, that's all.

It’s called “Japan”. Low performers are kept in corporations to do nothing all day while many of their peers work themselves to death.

Are you implying 100000+ people getting laid off in a handful of months merely is about weeding off "underperformers"?

No, I’m saying that not laying anyone off ever isn’t a good idea.

Termination and layoff are two very different things. You typically don't layoff people for incompetence, you fire them.