[PEN-L:28316] Re: Re: Options spin....

[joanna bujes <joanna.bujes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:36 PM 07/22/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> business week had an article late last year (iirc) which said: now
> that the recession is over [ha!], we can look back at some numbers
> and some of the findings might surprise you. for instance, did you
> know that [business week calculates] 99% of all the financial
> benefit of the increase in productivity went to "workers"? bet you
> didnt know that. worse, corporations suffered as they were unable
> to realize the productivity (the fruits of which had to be offered
> for free to attract customers), and later when investor confidence
> turned against them. investors in turn found a lower rate of
> return than the previous decade (80s) [i presume once again because
> the "workers" made out like bandits].

I wonder what they could be talking about?  Maybe it's the fact that
electronics declined in price. You can get dvds and printers for apprx
$100.00. Or maybe they're talking about the fact that the internet levelled
some ground for judicious shopping. Or maybe they're referring to all those
automated telephone answering algorithms we all enjoy so much. I don't
know. Maybe they mean that if the chinese coolies weren't busting their
socialist guts, no one in the U.S. could afford to buy a pair of jeans.

I don't know what they're talking about.

Are CEO's workers? Of course they are! They just work 500 times harder than
you. That's why they make so much money.

Joanna