I'm not suggesting you can, I'm suggesting it's bad to give some people the boot and others a pony in the hope of saving an abstraction. The company doesn't exist outside of the people whose livelihoods it sustains.
And in a financially constrained endgame, you have to make choices about who to keep and cut.
Cutting that senior sales executive will cost 20 other jobs due to lost business and downstream implications.
Cutting the factory worker costs zero other jobs.
The harsh reality is not everyone matters equally.
[and to be clear, I'm not talking about bullshit deals just because someone was "loyal" to the CEO. This is real talk, people who actually can deliver a path to group survival]
If you're lucky, they merely poach the stuff you cannot defend anymore. In most situations, they come after the crown jewels of the business, accounts which create the lions share of the revenue and profits which funds the business.
And then you're screwed. Shut it down, pink slips for everyone...
So when it was "your turn", you're going to get tossed in the street with NOTHING to tide you over to your next gig.
Still feel like letting your family starve for the sake of "loyalty"?
I don’t have or want a family. And it’s not about loyalty to the company it’s about the other people working under me.
I have savings so I can afford to be unemployed, but still don’t understand your hypothetical.