I once saw an interview where the president of GM said that the cost of labor as reflected in the sticker price of a car is "negligible"... the figure he gave was on the order of 3.7% IRC. I wish I could get legitimate actual figures.

I do know that while pharmaseutical companies like to blame the cost of drugs on R&D in fact that is a far lesser cost then marketing or administration and in fact is nearly matched dollar by dollar by direct and in-direct Federal supports.

Interesting stuff you find when you look at literature from things stockholders publications rather than the media. Companies like to keep two sets of books, one for the mass media and one to try to encourage investors. My research on insurance fraud led to the interesting figure of 97% of insurance fraud being fraud perpetrated on consumers not by consumers according to publications for an audience within the industry and for investors.

But we live in a culture where a player who is the big draw for a team deriving 10% of the gross revenue offends us in a way the owner getting 50% of it does not.

An econmy fails when its workers can not afford the products they are producing. Wealth derives from markets more than production now.

All too OT for me. My comment was intendended to express e a personal sympathy to BluEcho.