The post above is explicitly not advocating attempting to cut costs to $0, but to consider survival time when evaluating expenses. The extreme example is just u

The post above is explicitly not advocating attempting to cut costs to $0, but to consider survival time when evaluating expenses. The extreme example is just useful for projecting an intuition of the relationship between spending and survival. Same as how "You can generate revenue to infinity, but you can only cut costs to zero." shows the edge cases to build the intuition.