I think it is a matter of porportion, not of basic function. Taking risks and inventing companies is a valuable service; the point is that it is not several thousand times more valuable than running lathes or coordinating marketing or sweeping floors. It's the ratio that has grown obscene. I have no complaints if a man starts a company, makes it grow by sweating bullets day and night, and makes a whole lot more, once it is running profitably, than, say, a CNC mill operator who goes home at 4 every day and never worries about the company being there next week.

But the ratios being practiced by financial uppity-ups are obscene beyond any practical rationale except greed and self-interest.


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