You see the news about the challenges created by Covid 19. You understand that it's going to be tough for the next little while. You look at your 401K and it's value has been negatively impacted. You realize you are going to have to make some changes. You can't afford to do everything you had planned to do. So what to do? What to do?
After thinking about it briefly, you realize if you throw some of your kids out of the house and let them fend for themselves, you would save money. You didn't really care that much for them anyway. After all, you have some other kids. Also, some of the kids cost you more than the other kids due to health issues or being old enough to have a car with insurance payments. Yeah, the older kids are often better at household chores because they have been doing it longer but the younger ones will figure it out and besides many of the chores don't have to be done as well as the older kids are doing them. If you do toss out a few kids, you can use their college fund for that new boat or car you wanted or maybe take a nice vacation. Things will likely improve in the next several months or year or so. If they do and you decide you want some more kids, you can just adopt new kids or just rent them periodically.
And this is why companies aren't like family. Don't ever let them tell you that and don't ever believe it. Families don't abandon family when the going gets a little tough.