IP: Why managers make more money

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

An old but good one




From: John Markoff <markoff () nyt com>




> Why managers make more money
>
> Engineers and scientists will never make as much money as
> business executives & salesmen. Now we have a mathematical
> proof that explains why this is true:
>
> Postulate 1:  Knowledge is Power.
>
> Postulate 2:  Time is Money.
>
> As every engineer knows,
>
>        Work
>     ----------   =  Power
>        Time
>
> Since Knowledge = Power, and Time = Money, we have:
>
>         Work
>     -----------   =  Knowledge
>        Money
>
> Solving for Money, we get:
>
>            Work
>     ------------------  =  Money
>          Knowledge
>
> Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches
> infinity regardless of the Work done.
>
> Conclusion:  The Less you Know, the More you Make.
>
> Note: It has been speculated that the reason why Bill
> Gates dropped out of Harvard's math program was because he
> stumbled  upon this proof as an undergraduate, and
> dedicated the rest of  his career to the pursuit of
> ignorance.