On Dec 1, 2008, at 1:14 PM, martin wrote:
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> On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> That's what I was saying. Domhoff too.
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> I've been misunderstanding you then. It seemed as though you were
> minimizing the importance of the system - that it was about
> prestige, and monetary perks and socializing rather than retaining
> power.
How'd you get that from this?
> Board interlocks, these days, are about the creation of a corporate
> elite, a reciprocal exercise of power and mutual inflation of
> prestige (plus some cash and some nice perks).