"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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A friend of mine who is a Statistics instructor regularly dismantles
figures such as these. The US economic system is too complex to say
offhand "this percentage owns this percentage"; it depends on how you
derive your data and how it is organized. By and large, though,
corporations are run by people like Carly Fiorina and folks who get paid
hundreds of millions of dollars

Paid that much by whom?

Ultimately, America. HP descended so rapidly that the Corvallis plant has
nearly collapsed on itself. Now you buy your crap from China. Carly got a
$25,000,000 bonus for getting fired for ineptitude after her short time
there, but a lot of people I know that worked for HP--engineers who
DEVELOPED THE PRODUCTS and THE ASSEMBLY LINES TO MAKE THE PRODUCTS lost
their jobs in the meantime. If you're somehow content with that system, say
so.

And that's why our economy is outstripping ever other country in the
world,

That's what the south said right before the civil war. It was their lack of
industry and effective management that did them in.

How much responsibility does the truck driver have (a $50K rig) versus t

All the CEOs of all the airlines combined could likely not fly a single 767
from point A to point B. Nor could they train the pilots that do. Carly
would not have had a world-respected printer company to destroy were it not
for the engineers and technicians who developed thos products getting laid
off because of her crappy business management, but she's the one that got
tens of millions of dollars for nearly wrecking the company.

Maybe if you made more of a career and less of whining and barfing back

I'm a UNIX system administrator. If you don't think I'm doing "really well"
for the amount of sweat that collects on my brow... LOL!
Maybe you shouldn't generalize about people for whom you know jack squat.

-c