Fwd: Why Bill Gates makes so much money

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

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Date:        4/22/98 6:55 AM
Received:    4/22/98 7:41 AM
From:        Peterson, Daniel M (Daniel)** JV  **, dpeterso@lucent.com
To:          Mitch Stone, mstone@vc.net

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.


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