Petroleum corporations are doing it right now. Prices for crude have gone down (although still high) so to not cut he wages/bonuses of the higher ups, they lay off thousands of low-level drones. They call this a "hardship" although the only people who suffer are all replaceable and will be replaced as soon as crude oil hits $90 a barrel again.... For the people up top flying ultra-first class Dubai airlines? Nothing changes, except they maintained the bottom line "profit" for their company.
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