What a sad way to think about other people

It is, but it’s the only way for a company to succeed and scale over time. A pet approach works well in the early days, but you can’t become a VC-backed success without drastically reducing bus factors throughout the company.

That could be an incentive to keep companies small, but high-scale companies do have unique benefits to society.

Employees are people. Not cattle or pets. It doesn't mean you don't ever fire or lay people off. But you treat them as humans.

> It is, but it’s the only way for a company to succeed and scale over time

This is absolutely not true. It never has been at any point in history. Not even CEOs would claim such a thing until the 1980s, and they were wrong then as now.

Even today, Costco and other businesses are thriving.

Stop drinking the Koolaid.

Sounds like we need to prevent companies from scaling or being too successful.

Absolutely hilarious to optimize for having employees with no discernible edge whatsoever.