Hi, It occurs to me that there is another potential flaw in current economic theory and business practice. Currently (ala Friedmann) the parties that reap the benefit of a succesful business are the shareholders, this is currently seen to exclude the employees in many cases/companies. This approach undervalues the business worth of the employees commitment to the business. A more reasonable approach (and one that might make free-markets more workable, though not by itself) is to consider the employees shareholders even if they don't hold a single piece of stock. And no, their paychecks are not sufficient. Consider, another way to look at a business' goals is "to make every shareholder a millionare so they don't have to work at anything else". What business do you know has the specific goal of making their employees (all the way down to the janitor) sufficiently wealthy from their commitment to the business so that at some point they don't have to work any more either (and we are NOT talking about some measly 401k retirement program)? What would the impact be to the current business models if we include this axiomaticaly? ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------