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To: westes who wrote (51558)	5/21/2000 10:59:00 PM
From: The Phoenix	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

No need to get heated.. we were having a discussion. The housing market and the cost of living in the bay area is a function or a result of the use of options... not the other way around. An $80K salary is actually on the lower end of the pay scale in the valley. Options and the bullish market have created the high cost of living - not the other way around... so I do disagree that options are being used as compensation. They are more an incentive... a vested interest in the company so that all the employees work to make the company successful and with that improve the stock price. The fundamental basis is that the stock goes up.. if it doesn't than the options are worthless and are then zero compensation. Watch what happens to the housing market in the bay area if this is a prolonged bear market. BTW: you are right.. profit sharing was a poor choice of words. More like vested interest...