Posted by Nicholas at June 25, 2006 12:34 AMIf you're the owner of a women's shoe store, and you want to hire someone that will work for cheap and still love his job, you want a guy with a major foot fetish. That guy will never call in sick. He might need to take frequent breaks during the day, but it's a small price to pay for such motivation. The foot fetish guy will always work for less pay than the guy who's thinking "Eww, I have to touch feet all day." Over time, the free market system would drive out all the non-foot-fetish guys.
Based on the same economic theory, I predict that someday our entire military will be gay. If people are shooting at you, it goes down a lot easier if you're huddling in a foxhole with a chiseled 20-year old and you can use lines such as, "Bruce, we might die today. But before we go . . ."
Scott Adams, "Shoe Salesman Economic Theory", The Dilbert Blog, 2006-06-16
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