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The Salary Theorem

Why engineers can never hope to earn as much as business executives and other non-engineers.

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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