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When Top Executives Get Huge Pay Hikes At The Same Time As Middle-level And Hourly Workers Lose Their Jobs And Retirement Savings, Or Have To Accept Negligible Pay Raises And Cuts In Health And Pension Benefits, Company Morale Plummets. I Hear It All The Time From Employees: This Company, They Say, Is Being Run Only For The Benefit Of The People At The Top. So Why Should We Put In Extra Effort, Commit Extra Hours, Take On Extra Responsibilities? We'll Do The Minimum, Even Cut Corners. This Is Often The Death Knell Of A Company.

We're Now Moving Toward A Radically Different Economy. You Absolutely Can't Have A Distribution Oligopoly. The New Oligopolies - And I Think There Will Be New Oligopolies - Will Be Oligopolies Of Trustworthiness. Microsoft, Amazon, Schwab, And Other Brands Will Dominate Psychic Space, Not Shelf Space.

Being Critical Of The Nation Is A Far Cry From Being Unpatriotic Or Anti-american. In Fact, Most Social Criticism . . . Is Based On A Love Of America's Ideals And A Concern We're Not Living Up To Them.

The Only Way To Grow The Economy In A Way That Benefits The Bottom 90 Percent Is To Change The Structure Of The Economy. At The Least, This Requires Stronger Unions And A Higher Minimum Wage.

I Think That It's Difficult To Talk About Large Questions Of Economics Or Social Policy Without Understanding The Building Blocks Of Society. And Those Building Blocks Are Organizations, The People Who Run Them, And The People Who Work In Them.