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beckingz
This explains why the more money someone makes, the harder it is to explain new concepts to them.
noonespecial
Doesn't that just factor down to "the more you have, the less you need?" Which makes perfect sense.
beckingz
One might assume that output increases as input goes up...
noonespecial
As always, watch your units or your result is meaningless:

  Power = Work / Time
  Knowledge is Power
The first power is in Watts. I'm pretty sure the second is some sort of political unit of influence.
fenwick67
I'm not sure whether you took the article too seriously, or if I'm taking you too seriously
buboard
well knowledge/information is dimensionless so we ll have to add something with dimensions of Power to balance, let's say (your weight) * (height^2) / (Time^3) . (because, why not)

And Time is Money so you 're looking to maximize Money = (Your height) * Sqrt( Knowledge * Weight / Work) .

Note how knowledge doesn't matter that much. Be tall, fat and lazy.

velcrovan
Using the same reasoning, since Knowledge is Power it would also hold that Money = Work / Power, which means that Money also approaches infinity when Power approaches zero, which is equally silly.
benjohnson
Observation: People are dangerous(powerful?) when they have nothing left to lose.
tracerbulletx
Money is a function of power. The only relation to skill is that if the skill is in demand and hard to acquire it gives you a commiserate amount of power via your ability to withhold your skill. There's a cap on how much power that can ever give you and it's not that high. Furthermore, the reason some people don't attain more power is because they are too socially oblivious to obtain more power and would rather just whine about how unfair it is and make bad math jokes.
buboard
Also , being inexperienced and oblivious about how power works, they have not been able to automate the power gatekeeping machine - yet

in tech it is possible to make a tech product and be both a salesman and administrator (as well as code monkey). Its more work but the only way to break the cycle

shmerl
Sounds a reasoning behind 1984 "Ignorance is Strength".
maerF0x0
This probably is more true if "Knowledge" is a representation of others' knowledge.

ie: Does the customer know how badly you're ripping them off?

Does the customer know what cloud computing <or blockchain> even is?

cranium
That's why I studied all the exam material the day before: because as time goes towards zero, my knowledge increased exponentially.
rinchik
"as knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity", also to rephrase: as knowledge approaches infinity, money approaches zero, - sounds like industry vs academia salaries?
ss64
"as knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity"

In other words, if you employ people with little knowledge, the cost of getting anything done approaches infinity. Just look at any major government IT project for proof of this theorem.