Whilst we're on about recessions, this is the stuff they're made from

[Adrian II]

The old maxim that there's no room for sentiment in business is true, tough as it is.

But there is, at least for someone like Banquo's Ghost. He will no doubt correct me if I'm wrong, but if I properly understood his post it is the contast between the fate of his sacked employees and his own (inherited) wealth and socially secure position that bother him. That sentiment has little to do with economic necessities, and everything with privilege and a religious tradition that frowns on it.