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Sacrifice Is Overrated

Harvard Business Review

We laud the martyr who is paid poverty wages — and who lets everyone know it — without knowing anything about his talent or productivity. Yet we refuse the talents of someone who may be far more productive because his self-interest is simply in dollars instead of sainthood. We have an inadequate supply of saints.

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