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It screams of a mindset that says "I think my employees are idiots who deserve to be exploited if can convince them to be." No way in hell would that CEO ever be convinced of his own argument if he were in his employees' shoes.

I can see why it works, though. There are people who are motivated by the belief that they're more hardworking/better/etc than other people, and if you offer them a metric that could make them feel "better" than someone else, they'll try to meet it even if its to their own detriment. Hustle culture depends on these types existing.