Pick any two

Pondering the nature of professional jobs this afternoon, and the relative sizes of people's offices, I observed the Money - Space - Time triangle. It perfectly characterises staff benefits by job role:

• Engineers get Money and Time, but no Space.
  Evidence: senior technologists in computer companies have smaller offices than my supervisor.
• Executives get Money and Space, but no Time.
  Evidence: the large number of businesspeople on the District Line checking their Blackberries at 9pm.
• Academics get Time and Space, but no Money.
  Evidence: "Everybody knows" that all academics are poor.