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Contribution to the world

by admin on Dec.03, 2009, under Uncategorized

So I was thinking about the contribution we make to this world, statistically / mathematically and this is what I was getting at.

Your Contribution to this world = ( The contribution of your product or service to this world ) / The number of people working on that product or service.
So now the question is , how do we figure out the contribution a product to this world. For my calculations, this is what I will assume.

(From here on, we will assume for practical purposes a service as equivalent to a product )

Independent Contribution of a product (Cp) = Amount of people the product is used by / ( No of users of product 1 + No of users of product 2 +… and so on ..)

Seems like a very tiny quantity doesnt it? :)

Well, but we for sure feel that certain products enable other products.. For example, electricity.. If electricity was not there a lot of current day luxuries would be missing isnt it? Even if we assume that around 5 Billion people make use of electricity in the world ( and also assuming that the population of the world is 6 Billion ) , electricities contribution to this world seems smaller.. But what if we add the numbers of all the products which are derived from electricity? For example, internet, bulbs, Google? Now adding all these to the contribution of electricity..

ω ( Electricity) = Cp ( Electricity) + Σ (ω(Product affected by Electricity) );

Under this new equation, you might already have observed that, if you are working on a product in a large company, the chance of the product making a contribution to this world goes up slightly but your contribution to this world goes down proportional to the number of people who are employed by your company. So the bigger your company, the smaller will be your contribution ( even for the product that is true right? ) .  While, if you are working alone on a product , the chances of the product making a significant contribution to this world goes down but since you are the only contributor to it, the denominator is 1 ( or if you are in a group of 2-3 people , then use the appropriate number ).

Now go ahead, figure out your contribution :D Well, enough ranting huh!


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