Why Technical People Get Paid Less Than Managers

23. January 2007, 0:50 UhrVikas Sah

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Engineers, Scientists, and Technicians almost never make as much money as business executives.

Let’s see a rigorous mathematical proof that explains why this is true:

Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power (Knowledge = Power)

Postulate 2: Time is Money (Time = Money)

As every engineer knows, Power = Work/Time

Since Knowledge = Power, and Time = Money (from postulate 1 and 2 above), we have Knowledge = Work/Money

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

Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity regardless of the Work done.

Conclusion: The Less you Know, The More you Make.

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14 comments:

James Gimbi, 1. February 2007, 7:55

Haha! nice. did you make this up or rip it?
og, 1. February 2007, 8:44

now that’s what I’m talking ’bout, need I say more
not, 1. February 2007, 10:30

nice and realistic equation.!
John Wesley, 1. February 2007, 16:20

Very clever. I really enjoyed that being an engineer myself.
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Truth, 2. February 2007, 7:46

The real reason is that technical people are simply cannon fodder. They just do mechanical work, just suitable for robots mostly. They are replaceable and do not make the real value (which is the last 5% of the products anyways).
vikassah, 2. February 2007, 9:11

Hey James:

I had it saved from some email sent to me way back but this thing must be out there lot of places.

Vikas.
Christophe, 2. February 2007, 11:43

This also demonstrates the superiority of intelligent design over science: you don’t need any knowledge to perform efficiently, but you need an engineer/scientist to demonstrate it!
diogo, 2. February 2007, 15:46

this just made my day
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urmila, 12. November 2007, 6:08

Interesting…Thanks for sharing..
rambhai, 18. January 2008, 9:37

haha nice one quite a simplified explanation to the HR industry of india ~~~~its sounds as though you are a mathematician??are you???