I'm kinda with you that in most situations corporations would probably be better off hiring slower and then riding out downturns on cash.

But big picture I disagree. We kind of need creative destruction in an economy - we need to be able to lay off people in horse buggey industries so that they can be hired to make Model T's. We're better off focusing on our social safety network and having a job market that encourages some amount of transit between careers.

> Hiring should feel like a marriage or a commitment for any business.

Treating the employer/employee relationship like some life-long commitment sounds like pure hell. It is a transaction. I don't want it to be anything more than that.

I wish it weren't such a big deal in ones life they keep their current employer (from the perspective of things like health insurance plans, retirement plans, PTO balances, basic income). If it weren't so god damned painful to change jobs or have some gaps longer than a month or two then maybe we'd have a chance to just treat jobs as jobs we move between instead of a sacred vow for life lest we be thrown into chaos when broken.

> Hiring should feel like a marriage

it does though doesn't it? divorce is so common that marriage no longer feels like it has any permanence like you imply it does