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10% of employees deliver 50% of the scented flowers, if you use pay as a rough proxy for scented flowers. Big if, there.

• eloff 7y ago
  See what I wrote below about pay as a proxy, I won't copy and paste because it's against the rules. I think your objection is you are defining value as something other than economic value. I think from the context it should be obvious that's what I'm talking about, but I've got a whole thread of comments showing people didn't get it.
  • mikeash 7y ago
    I’m not entirely sure what the difference is between economic value and other sorts of value. My objection boils down to pay being an approximation of value and rarity. Picking fruit is extremely valuable but the pay is shit because workers are plentiful. Looking at employees as a product, pay is the price, value provided is essentially demand, and the relationship between the two depends heavily on supply.
    • eloff 7y ago
      Yes that's true, supply heavily skews the value of pay as a proxy for value. But to be fair I did call it out as being a very rough proxy. The idea was just to look at it from another angle and see if it makes sense.