Gutting the Golden Goose
You want to know why layoffs are so common in corporate America? Why entire departments get wiped out even when companies are raking in record profits? It’s not a mystery. It’s a strategy. And it’s killing us. Not just the people who lose their jobs, but the towns, the communities, the whole local economy that used to rely on those steady paychecks and strong middle-class roots. And if companies and policymakers don’t pull their heads out of their spreadsheets, they’re going to keep slicing open golden geese thinking they’ll find a pile of gold inside… and instead, they’ll be left with nothing but entrails. The Real Reason Layoffs Are So Common Since the 1980s, corporate America has swallowed a toxic ideology: "maximize shareholder value at any cost." Thank Milton Friedman for that one. He wrote in 1970 that the only social responsibility of a business is to increase its profits. Not employees. Not customers. Not the communities or even the country that made them rich. Just t...