Yes, there is absolutely no fucking way other than treating employees like they are garbage. Of all the hundreds of thousands of companies in the world, Amazon and Uber are the two most typical and everyone needs to follow them because obviously they are doing things the way it has to be done.
That's how all the great products we use were made. Like think about the Snuggly. Snuggly HQ was a brutal realization of Lord of the Flies. The bottom sales guy had his head cut off and stuck on a pike in front of the others so they'd remember their duty to the emperor.
Or maybe your examples are the special case. IMO, you don't have to treat your employees poorly in order to get the best results. What happens is that important and rich companies tend to attract these abusive harassers who want to carve out a space in an important company and make a big chunk of money as well. And because the company is more focused on growth, it hasn't brought in the right gatekeepers to keep these kinds of people away.
That's how all the great products we use were made. Like think about the Snuggly. Snuggly HQ was a brutal realization of Lord of the Flies. The bottom sales guy had his head cut off and stuck on a pike in front of the others so they'd remember their duty to the emperor.