Is it accurate for me to say that the American love of layoffs began fully flowering with Reagan firing air traffic controllers in the 1980 strike? I know the roots are deeper but was that the cliff?
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Many parents, I think? Reagan v. air traffic controllers, deindustrialization and plant closures in the 1970s, offshoring in the 1980s, the rise of lean management, growth of McKinsey-type consultancies?
There is an expansiveness to the American nature that has me wondering. In Canada, we would tend more to shave people off in layoffs, more than Americans who go big and lay off huge Texas-style swathes. Is that accurate in a general way? I'm trying to assess cruelty levels.
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