The examples I use to illustrate situations like these are urinal cake companies...

		tastybites on Feb 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The unfortunate math behind consulting companies The examples I use to illustrate situations like these are urinal cake companies, or toilet paper manufacturers. These people are rich. Rich beyond your wildest dot com dreams. Are these people (who own the above mentioned firms) any less "smart" than the "genius" engineer who sits in a cubicle and makes 100k and is at the mercy of his mortgage banker?

Paul put it well when quoting the aphorism: "Where there's muck, there's brass."