[omarkatzen]

Most corporate managers would observe B's rate and demand it of all bricklayers, without bothering to figure out why B built such a good wall. They'd hire cheaply (cost-cutting, HR says this is as much budget as we get) and end up with a bunch of A-type bricklayers, require B-esque timeframes from these A-type people (without bothering to train them in whatever made B so much more efficient) and get terrible walls built by mediocre bricklayers in 2 hours. That is what would actually happen.

[zeidrich]

And then while they are employing 50 of these brick-layers and notice that their brick structures aren't being built fast enough, they will question bricklayer B again about why even though the walls aren't going up fast enough he's going home at 5 while all of the other bricklayers are going home at 9.