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The trade off between job security and arbitrary firings and people who are unproductive but can't be fired.
The first is a problem for the worker, the second is mainly a problem for the employer.
While I bet that the employers claim that it's impossible to do and will lead to the downfall of the economy it has worked just fine in Europe.
And yet productivity is very similar between the US and Europe...