Why is it that some people believe that people reach some level of success and become inhuman, robotic automatons? He had to fire a bunch of people. Have you ever had to fire someone? It sucks. I'm sure he's not happy about it. What else do you expect him to say or do?
>having financial security for him and everybody in his family to live off the interest of his bank for generations
If we're going to play the game of relative wealth, I don't think you're going to find much sympathy for the laid-off Google engineers; these people aren't going to be at the food bank any time soon.
He didn't fire anybody. He reduced a number in a spreadsheet. This is Dunbar's number at work:
You know, he could have fired 11k instead of 12k. I'm sure he sleeps just fine and would have also been okay with 15k.
Why is it that some people make up internal states for people that they've never met? He may have fought for months internally in order to lay off 12K people. He may be disappointed to the point of despair that it wasn't 20K, as he may have originally recommended.
Being against making up callousness shouldn't be responded to by making up concern.