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Dilbert's Salary Theorem

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16 years 2 months ago #25015 by S0lo
Dilbert's "Salary Theorem" states that "Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives, sales people, accountants and especially liberal arts majors." This theorem can now be supported by a mathematical equation based on the following two well known postulates:

Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.
Postulate 2: Time is Money.
As every engineer knows: Power = Work / Time.

Since: Knowledge = Power,
then Knowledge = Work / Time,
and Time = Money,
then Knowledge = Work / Money.

Solving for Money, we get: Money = Work / Knowledge.

Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of work done.

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16 years 2 months ago #25038 by The_Berzerker
Excellent!!

Best equation I've seen in ages.
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16 years 2 months ago #25064 by talk2sp
solo nice post.. permit me to print a copy and make a publication in my school. i will quote it from this wonderful site...

man nice analysis.. u did well.

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16 years 2 months ago #25072 by S0lo
Replied by S0lo on topic Re: Dilbert's Salary Theorem
Go ahead talk2sp. It's not mine, I just saw it somewhere.

It looks like that Dr.Dilbert outperformed Einstein. But because he had so much knowledge his revenues finally approached Zero. Hence, he lacked support for his theorem and never was known :P

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