Trump, brexit, Hungary, Poland, (almost) France, Turkey all happened before 2020.

If anything it seems people look more outraged from this

1. Fire people without knowing anything about the business, just for feeling powerful
2. People go working for competition (it turns out employers don't own employees for life)
3. Competition is advantaged by the know how of these people
4. Be mad
5. Lawyers come with the idea that ex employees retained company property (because, again, you don't own the person). Something either very stupid from Twitter to not ask for corporate equipment or blantly false
6. ...
7. Profit (yes, he will profit anyway 🤷)

Do you realize that justifying current behavior with something happened more than 2 centuries ago it's just propaganda, right?