The Myth of Doing More With Less

We cannot pour with an empty cup.

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“You don’t get more with less, you get less with less. That’s why they call it less,” David Simon says.

It’s the age-old problem in bureaucracy: how do we get the same effectiveness out of our institutions while cutting costs and spending less money. David Simon, who created “The Wire” and many other of my favorite shows, is…