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In general yes but obviously nuanced. Gives you a sense of scalability


Well, it's a philosophical conundrum.

If a business has enough money to hire more people (revenues per employee is proxy). It should do so as long as it can recoup the investment.

If a business already has thousands of people sitting around doing nothing, should it continue to hire more?

There are a near infinite amount of small optimizations and extensions in global businesses that can pay for themselves, so technically it should always hire... but should it really?




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