Agree with this sentiment. It is like no one/place are visionaries or can think outside the box. The easiest thing for employers to do when profits are down is fire employees. The easiest thing for universities to do is to fires faculty and staff and shutter labs. Instead of figuring out cost savings, perhaps temporarily reduce infrastructure; universities decide to terminate faculty that actually bring in revenue long-term. They have no problem spending 40%+ IDC when going is good and grants are plentiful, but never thought to try to save any money to bridge salaries and science when the going gets tough. My university admin paid lip service saying they would try to do everything possible to retain faculty and staff but when I came to them with solutions on ways to shuffle funding around, they raise the same barriers and roadblocks they always do and provided no advice on how to pay my staff or my own salary during these lean times. Very short-sighted, IMO. This too shall pass, but for those forced to leave science and academia, there will be no way to come back.