The correlation between wealth, power and opportunity and income is much greater than that between intelligence and income.
Much greater.
Dilbert's "Salary Theorem" states:
"Scientists and Engineers can never earn as much as administrators and sales people."
This theorem can now be proved mathematically:
Given:
Power = Work / Time and, Knowledge is Power
Substituting knowledge for power, we obtain: Knowledge = Work/ Time
If time = money, then: Knowledge = Work/ Money
Solving this equation for money, we obtain: Money = Work/ Knowledge
Therefore, as knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of work done.
Conclusion:
the less you know, the more you make. Simple and clean