----- Original Message ----- From: "Wojtek Sokolowski" <sokol at jhu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 7:25 AM Subject: Re: Male-female wage gap, managers
> At 07:32 PM 6/5/2002 -0700, Ian wrote:
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>
> >Nay, a serious problem of information/power economics; who's closest
to
> >the budget dept, the cfo and hr......Women and men should demand open
> >books at their firms!
>
>
> That is what I once dubbed the Mosquito Intake Theory of Management
> Wages. Mosquitos do not have lungs, and thus cannot suck blood. The
> amount of blood they take in depends solely on the pressure in the
blood
> vessel to which they manage to tap. Ditto for the managerial class.
>
> wojtek
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Well managers have lungs and brains and are nothing like mosquitoes; or are the panoply of coercive/manipulative behaviors human beings engage in mere epiphenomena in human history?
Ian