Here, bonus hot take @ranma-official might agree with:
Actually, employees burning out or dying is an externality.
The company profits from the temporary boost in productivity while destroying the future economic value of up to an entire lifespan, denying other companies and the economy as a whole future production. As employers do not own employees, this creates a Tragedy of the Commons situation, justifying the existence of state interference. (etc)
neoliberalism-nightly said: consider this. the state would like this to happen in order to prevent a fiscal crisis
That only works if you kill them near the end of their career, not near the beginning and while they’re still raising children, and it’s a dumb plan relative to alternatives.
neoliberalism-nightly said: well, why can’t it
It costs a lot of money to raise and educate a kid. If the fiscal crisis is a rising portion of elderly retired relative to workforce, reducing the size of the workforce or destroying your investment before the costs can be repaid is not what you want to do.