Can you please not use HN primarily for political or ideological battle? We ban accounts that do that, regardless of their politics or ideology, because it destroys what the site is supposed to be for.
For one, that's not the criteria being used to lay people off. Most of it is politically motivated pork cutting with no basis in rational justification.
For two, if you fire someone for dereliction of duty, that doesn't make their duty go away. You have to eventually hire someone new to take the job.
We've already seen this cycle play out in many departments already:
