My salary review is coming up and I’ve just completed a postgraduate law workshop in negotiation. Guess what that means?
Nah, it’s hopeless. Dilbert’s Salary Law tells me so. Here, I’ll reproduce it for you.
Engineers and scientists will never make as much money as business executives.
Now we have mathmatical 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.
Damn. I’d better start saving now.
what a waste. i should have studied less in the first place.
Don’t worry Joan, I have little enough knowledge to buy you all the workshops you want.
Counter example: Professor at Yale. They are pretty rich (you are looking at high end of 6 figures here), and they are quite clever( or else they wouldn’t get a job there ).
I guess another counter to counter example is Paris Hilton. She is pretty rich and not doing very much and I am doubtful if she has that brain capacity.