{"id":10299,"date":"2011-02-28T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T23:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=10299"},"modified":"2011-02-21T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T12:58:43","slug":"the-salary-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/02\/the-salary-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"The Salary Theory&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dilbert&#8217;s &#8220;Salary Theorem&#8221; states that &#8220;Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives and sales people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This theorem can now be supported by a mathematical equation based on the following two postulates: As every engineer knows: Power = Work\/Time. Since: Knowledge = Power Time = Money Knowledge = Work\/Money. Solving for Money, we get: Money = Work\/Knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of work done. Conclusion: The less you know, the more you make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilbert&#8217;s &#8220;Salary Theorem&#8221; states that &#8220;Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives and sales people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}