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We draw from this also a refinement of [[Parkinson’s law]]: let us call it {{buchstein}}’s law, or the [[eighteenth law of worker entropy]]:  
We draw from this also a refinement of [[Parkinson’s law]]: let us call it {{buchstein}}’s law, or the [[eighteenth law of worker entropy]]:  
{{quote|{{eighteenth law of worker entropy}}}}
{{quote|{{eighteenth law of worker entropy}}}}
work does not expand to fit the ''time'' available as much as the ''money'' available. (Time and money being interchangeable, and both being basically unlimited in the civil service of the 1960s, it is easy to see how Parkinson came to his conclusion: it is no less accurate than Newton’s, but no less fundamentally misconceived. The constant is not time, but the speed of money.)