let me guess: somebody said that keeping people miserable is not only pointless, but also bad for the holy productivity, and after translating into ghoulish-managerial it came out as something to the effect of “here’s how you can get benefits of higher wages without actually spending money!” but it’ll end up being something like weekly complimentary banana or something of that sort

bonus points if it’s really an ad for grifty guide/book/course/bootcamp