Jeff Bezos is, by all accounts, a fanatic in this sense about cost-cutting within Amazon. I am not sure we have ever had a fanatic US President.
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You can save money by locating your org in a cheap place or not hiring too many people; you can also save by refusing to buy office snacks or comfortable chairs; the latter hurts more but saves less.
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You can “sacrifice” unexamined assumptions of “necessity” without sacrificing anyone’s personal enjoyment of life. Some people who are very good at this kind of prioritization are not extremely personally ascetic, but they do really care about their goal.
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The Chinese government gives broad authority to more-local or lower officials to do certain things, and then requires that they use that authority to achieve certain demanding metrics. This, of course, leads to gaming the metrics. You see the same things in some corps.
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In China, you get bad steel stored in warehouses to meet quotas. At Walmart, you get low-quality produce because it was slightly cheaper, and suppliers with high consumer surplus going out of business when Walmart becomes a near-monopsony.
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Additionally, self-sacrifice is not a infinite well. It's not sustainable to always sacrifice something new for a cause, and some sacrifices turn damaging pretty fast (sleep being maybe the most common of them).
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