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To: elmatador who wrote (28097)	1/29/2003 12:12:52 AM
From: AC Flyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>><<What I write bluntly here. This guy writes politely :-)>><< Oh really, elmat? I don't recall seeing you write anything like this (from the article you posted): But, unlike the old Soviet Union or modern Japan, the US has a remarkable capacity for rapid policy responses, which is shared to a considerable degree by the other English-speaking countries. So while capitalism has not been wisely managed of late, it will be better managed in the Anglo-American world as a result of the bubble.

To: elmatador who wrote (28097)	1/29/2003 1:38:50 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

This article is absolute rubbish. The shareholder is a part OWNER of the company. The insiders are employees, and to the extent they own options or shares, they are also owners. At the end of the day, the OWNERS should be enitled to the profits of the firm either in the form of dividend payouts or share price increases to reflect the increase in enterprise value of reinvesting profits. To say that employees are ENTITLED to profits above and beyond their compensation is misguided. Profit sharing and ownership distribution is a means toward creating incentive alignments. Those things work just as well as cash bonuses, if handled properly. At the end of the day, if shareholders decided that they weren't getting their fair share of the increase in value of the firm, then they will sell their shares. That will reduce the market value of the firm to almost nothing, if the majority sell en mass. Then the author of the article below wouldn't have many doubts about who is in control of the company.