As we will come to see, it certainly does not make sense financially to work. If we were to graph the relationship between hard work and money, we would see that the harder and more demanding the job, the less the pay. As effort decreases, success (as measured by money) increases. If people were remunerated based on the amount of hard work necessary to accomplish a job, physical laborers would be the richest people in society. Obviously they are not.

In our graph we could start with the following benchmark. If a person solely used his or her muscles to generate electricity, and was not assisted by devices or inventions that were derived through any brain activity, he would generate enough electricity to earn $4.30 in his lifetime.

For those paying attention, the conclusion should already be evident:We must use our brains to assist us in working less and ultimately to avoid working altogether. Otherwise we condemn ourselves to work and the more we must work, the less we get paid ‰ÛÓ a double whammy

My Big Breakthrough

Decades ago, some friends and I had visions of renovating a run-down space and changing it into a fashionable graphic arts design studio.

However, in the middle of our soon-to-be-magnificent parquet floor, resting on its side, was a grotesque black safe, approximately six feet long and three feet by three feet at its base. It was clear that before we could begin the refinishing of our studio floor we had to move this ugly box of rusted steel out of the room.