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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (9)	12/11/1999 1:18:00 PM
From: c.horn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176

The Peter Principle Proven In case you've ever wondered why ignorance rises to the executive level, here is a simple explanation that is also a mathematical proof: Knowledge is Power. Time is Money. And, as every actuary (with some physics training) knows: Work ---------- = Power Time So, if Knowledge = Power and Time = Money then through simple substitutions, Work ---------- = Knowledge Money Solving for Money, we get: Work -------------- = Money Knowledge Thus, If Work is held constant as a positive number (no matter how small!) Money approaches infinity as Knowledge approaches zero. What this means is: All else being equal, the less you know, the more you make