Wall Street is jumping in part because wages and benefits, as a world wide component of doing business, are down. A company that lays off 20% of its employees and liquidates 40% of its capital can look more profitable for a time at least, but I don't think that sort of thing is always going to be a positve for our society.

If Bill Gates walks into a bar with 20 guys in it, suddenly everybody's average wealth is in the billionaire range.

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