Must there be some token sympathy shown in any sort of analysis on this topic? Anyways

> promise them unprecedented compensation

They were promised and received uncompensated compensation. No promises of indefinite employment were ever given, and it’s a bit naive to assume boom times never end. I think it’s fair to make this point too, even if on an individual level I sympathize with pretty much anyone that loses their job.

I deeply appreciate your other response to me as well as this comment / question.

Obviously this is going to happen, I am not shocked or surprised and I get how it can cause anxiety to emerge.

I do think there's a connection between resilience (as you observed in your other response) and entitlement. I am not sure which way causality flows but you wrote: "promise them unprecedented compensation" - I feel like there's also a realistic mindset that should go with interpreting that: I am hired to do a job and things could change (vs something like I get this comp because the universe knows I am the shit or something like that)

>Can we offer them some understanding and sympathy?

If you make over 200k a year in a booming market, no.

what does that even mean? if you make over 200k a year in a busted market, then you are worthy of sympathy?

I don’t understand this 200K thing…

Are you some sort of bad person for making what the market pays you?

It reeks of jealousy and brazen callousness because someone has secured compensation outside their reach or imagination.

I don’t get it.

200k is an arbitrary number but the general point is that someone making multiples of the median household income with high future prospects does not know the kind of struggle faced by many people and therefore does not deserve sympathy.

Is it understanding or indulgence?