This isn't happening to me at the moment, but it seems kind of psycho to try to snowball people about a big unplanned setback in their working lives. This attempt to therapize people in advance seems like it's rooted in a mis-estimation of what a worker-employee relationship is.
I push buttons for X, X sends me a fraction of the dollar value I add. If X is not going to send me dollars, I'll stop pushing buttons.
I'll work out the emotional details in my own time.