Billionaire metabolism = average drudge

 Headline today : Billionaires wealth wanes; Oprah joins the club

       Working class people are advised  early in life that they simply

    must WORK for a living -and only despicable parasites refuse to make

    socially useful efforts. But the average drudge supporting a family

    can expect only a very modest life style no matter how hard he WORKS.

           Something strange and even a little unjust about this business

    of work. Too bad so few blue collar workers studied elementary physics

    in high school. Science has finally demystified  WORK and can even measure

    it - in foot pounds or calories. Even our brain can be studied at work,

    literally lighting up a medical imagining screen as one area of the brain

    burns up calories at a faster or slower rate than another area of the

    brain.

                Looking at this screen alone, the good doctor can not tell

    if the patient is Bill Gates, Oprah or just John or Jane Doe.

              Mechanical work is measured in JOULES which -and this was a

    great 19th century discovery - has an equivalent in calories.

                     1 joule = .239 calories

           In consuming calories our brains are comparable to a household

    lightbulb. Since our economy is based on the principle of exchange,

    and if we  equate calories consumed -thinking or DOING - to units

    of money - a scientific soul can only wonder why Oprah or Bill Gates

    earns more than the average drudge !

            ...... A song says it better... " Sixteen tons and what do you

    get ?   Another day's pay and deeper in debt "

            Or  even better : " F--- this job !  "

                 Groucho Marx is my mentor.