Subject: Knowledge and Money Relationships
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 06:59:10 -0700
From: Doug McGee <mcgee@kdcol.com>
Organization: NCI Information Systems, Inc.
To: mcgee@kdcol.com

Knowledge is Power
          Time is Money and as every engineer knows,
          Power is Work over Time.

So, substituting algebraic equations for these time worn bits of wisdom,
we get:
          K = P    (1)
          T = M    (2)
          P = W/T  (3)

Now, do a few simple substitutions:

          Put W/T in for P in equation (1), which yields:
          K = W/T  (4)

Put M  in for T into equation (4), which yields:

          K = W/M  (5).

Now we've got something.  Expanding back into English, we get:

          Knowledge equals Work over Money.

What this MEANS is that:

          1. The More You Know, the More Work You Do, and
          2. The More You Know, the Less Money You Make.

Solving for Money, we get:

          M = W/K  (6)
          Money equals Work Over Knowledge.

>From equation (6) we see that Money approaches infinity as Knowledge
approaches 0, regardless of the Work done.

What THIS MEANS is:

          The More you Make, the Less you Know.

Solving for Work, we get

          W = M K  (7)
          Work equals Money times Knowledge

>From equation (7) we see that Work approaches 0 as Knowledge
approaches 0.

What THIS MEANS is:

           The stupid rich do little or no work.

Working out the socioeconomic implications of this breakthrough is left
as an exercise for the reader.