Years of best practices in product/engineering in blogs (DevOps, I also remember their endless scrolling A/B tests!), youtube, conferences, then product doesn't work, company fires people.
1. Those who are good developers
2. Those who can't write any real code (cargo cult or cut&paste developers, e.g. the 25% who I didn't hire over the years because they were not able to FizzBuzz)(25%-50% of the market)
The 10x comes from comparing (1) and (2) - although dividing anything by 0 is larger than 10x.
TL;DR
"DHL HELL" from the subject means DHL is paying not as much as the author of the article, a pilot, would like. DHL has a lever over pilots, and pay decreases. My assumption would be that the building of the US war machine after 2001 increased the number of veteran pilots, increasing the trend over the last several decades of too many pilots.
Love how Americans put "great country" into every other sentence.
I assume Trump voters [author is veteran and highly probably voted for Trump] like free markets as long as it decreases prices for them as consumers, when it comes to their jobs they are socialists.
Also interesting the sprinkling of conspiracy theories "And most disturbing—it is becoming increasingly clear that DHL is trying to pull the strings from behind the scenes, using a complex web of ties to our industry to bypass legal checks against foreign influence [...]" - most probably because the US is the best nation in the world, so a foreign company can't act like this, so they "bypass legal checks against foreign influence [...]".
The author works for "Southern Air", a US company, btw.