他一生都从事低下的工作。

Having a humble job all his life.

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但是我们失去了真正做事的动力，到处是效率低下的工作、浪费、冲突和部门间的孤立。

You lose any real incentive to fight inefficiency, duplication of effort, conflicts, and disconnects between those groups.

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例如，许多雇主会忽略他们的秘书偶尔的工作效率低下，只要她有令人愉快的个性。

Many employers, for example, will overlook occasional inefficiencies from their secretary provided she has a pleasant personality.

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And so...what you're noticing is a fair mount of mergers and acquisitions, meaning less efficeint businesses are collapsing into biger businesses.

所以你会看到,企业间大量的,兼并，这意味着,工作效率低下的企业,会垮台，被更大的企业吞并。

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