That's just looking at extremes, and the trouble with extremes is that they are well... extreme.
If we take it a step closer to home, it is more of a line. Take your position at the Aligator. Say they offered you a 'better' position, it would mean more prestige (in this case interchangeable for money), but also more of a headache. Say it actuaslly meant less hours, but a high responsibility, with less (or no) control of the quality and/or quantitity of stories that are published. Nominally you're the editor in chief, and your name appears on the paper, technically anything that happens is your fault, and practically you have no way of control, would you take the job? I mean, it does give more free time, and a higher money-equivalency.
Emotion-quotient is important. It even expresses politics through it's effect on dedication and morale. Another example: Consider the soldier who dies for his country. He's paying a high price. He's giving up way more than his free time. Yet I'm sure that his pay is abismal. Yet patriotism, gallantry and such can be plotted against the line of emotion-quotient.
Now don't ask me to draw the graph. I don't think you can realistically define values for emotion. But In this I like to quote einstein: "It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
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Date: December 5th, 2005 09:44 pm (UTC)If we take it a step closer to home, it is more of a line. Take your position at the Aligator. Say they offered you a 'better' position, it would mean more prestige (in this case interchangeable for money), but also more of a headache. Say it actuaslly meant less hours, but a high responsibility, with less (or no) control of the quality and/or quantitity of stories that are published. Nominally you're the editor in chief, and your name appears on the paper, technically anything that happens is your fault, and practically you have no way of control, would you take the job? I mean, it does give more free time, and a higher money-equivalency.
Emotion-quotient is important. It even expresses politics through it's effect on dedication and morale.
Another example:
Consider the soldier who dies for his country. He's paying a high price. He's giving up way more than his free time. Yet I'm sure that his pay is abismal.
Yet patriotism, gallantry and such can be plotted against the line of emotion-quotient.
Now don't ask me to draw the graph. I don't think you can realistically define values for emotion. But In this I like to quote einstein:
"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."