Behind the Ironic Column

“Many highbred compensation plans today have elements of Binary plans in them”

I confess to being easily sidetracked into other areas of research when I’m exploring something on the internet.  I’ve always believed in serendipity and you have to be open to happenstance to let serendipity enter your life.  So this morning when I was checking up on some “too good to be true” offers from a friend, I ran across the statement at the top of this column. 

Having a background in computer sciences makes me wonder what the import is of the capitalization of Binary…  Is there some special significance here that I’m completely missing?  Or does it just seem more important to the writer if he tosses in a capital or two.   In any event my real interest is in the vision of highbred compensation.

We’ve always know that lords and ladies tended (or at least *pre*tended) to have more compensation – whether in looks, talents, or actual money – than those of us in the lesser stations of society.   I’d just never thought of it as a compensation plan – part of a package of benefits like life insurance and retirement.  I wonder what’s necessary to be offered such a plan – if I take a job at the local factory or the local fast food outfit, I doubt that their offerings include one for ‘highbred.’   It would need to be something more along the lines of corporate executive perhaps, or member of the board, or a public relations position.  Something where my connections and presumed influence could help the company and which would entitle me to the extra compensation implied by the very name of the plan.  Of course it would definitely be ironic if the compensation listed under such a grandiose heading turned out to be not that special after all.  And perhaps I could do just as well financially by getting a regular job and a regular plan – like most of my fellow members of the working classes.

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