stocks and GDP

[Carl Remick]

Re Quincy's:  "I think the whole discussion is preposterous. These
questions should not be
decided on this basis. It is not helpful for progressives to argue for
or
against corporate schemes for social security, unless arguing against
them
implies dismissing the entire frame of the discussion, and substituting
another based entirely on different assumptions. NOBODY should be poor,
hungry, homeless, etc. That's the basic assumption that should be made.
NOBODY, no matter why, no matter what."

I couldn't agree more.  Too many of the discussions on this list seem
merely the mirror image of the overly abstracted nonsense I experience
every day as a denizen of the corporate world.  I think professional
economists are the worst in this respect -- at the end of the day, even
the lefties among them seem mainly concerned with how much social
justice can we "afford."

Carl Remick