She would mumble something about needing to streamline the company's processes to remain competitive. Not to the workers, of course-- To a board of directors who are barely paying attention, other than making sure number goes up.

The workers would just be informed that half of them are no longer employed there.

even Ayn Rand didn't particularly like Ayn Rand,

not to say she was rational of course.

I was into Ayn Rand in high school and in retrospect I guess I'd say that, given the things I thought were important, I was rational. But certainly my values weren't quite...I dunno...human?

I've read all the main books and think they're fucking hilarious. Does that count?

Thank you!

That's why the realistic outcome to this scenario is that she fires half her workforce there by maintaining the same level of production while also slashing labour costs.

I think the comic is supposed to be a lampooning of Ayn Rand's philosophy... Not an accurate model of business considerations within a production based industry.

I mean you might be, depending upon what % of the total market you operate and what the exact inputs of the new method are.