The linked article is specific to executives and kind of confirms what most are complaining about here.

> a 10-year study of over 2,600 leaders showed almost half (45%) suffered at least one major career blow-up — like getting fired, messing up a major deal, or blowing an acquisition. Despite that, 78% of these executives eventually made it to the CEO role.

An executive can make a series of awful decisions and still advance in their career.

Most employees can as well - IFF you move to different companies.

I think its tough to argue that getting laid off is a net-benefit for your career most of the time.

Seeing the article dating 2018 told me all I needed to know about how out of touch it is with the current market.

I wouldn't wish for you to get laid off to understand thee current circus, but I'd urge you to at least spend maybe an hour in some of the "Who wants to be hired" threads to understand the scale of the impact, and how even HN workers can be struggling.

If that holds true (and not sure that it does), then it also holds true for when you decide to get another job, on your own terms, rather than being forced into it.

Yeah I end up with like twice the salary, but the job search is always the worst parts of my life.