Purging elder employees is the logical result of making the employer pay for the health care of their employees.
Based on the article, it sounds like the expertise of more experienced workers was preventing the reckless management from shipping poorly tested products earlier, and this was the actual reason for terminating them.
The now-elder employee gave their best and healthy years to the company and its mission.
If someone doubled the workers salary to leave you wouldn't say "but the company loyally gave you a job for 10 years, how can you desert them?", same thing here. We should incentivize companies to do the right thing, not punish them for it.
This is the terrible rot of modern business culture - all driven by short-term profit making at the cost of long-term sustainability.
FTFY
When did I say this?