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To: sandeep who wrote (52997)1/3/2001 1:42:21 AM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
Employee stock options have been shown to help companies attract the best talent.

You are confusing micro with macro. So a smart guy goes from Intel to Brocade. How does the overall economy benefit? Answer: it doesn't.

However, while groping blindly in the dark, you have stumbled on one important way in which stock options have hurt our national productivity. The concentration of these lottery tickets in the technology field have drawn a lot of our brightest talent into that field. Rather than allocating the top talent to the most profitable companies, our economy has directed these people to the company most likely to hoodwink dumbass investors with a really cool-sounding IPO. I know a number of people who have wasted the past few years working for Dot Com black holes.

Tom
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