On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 21:53:55 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2021-03-09 6:51 p.m., Boron Elgar wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Mar 2021 15:13:30 -0700, US Janet >
>> wrote:
>
>>> An article in the news last week said that Costco employees received
>>> $16/hour to start and that most of them received $24.50/hour. Sounds
>>> cedent to me.
>>> Janet US
>>
>> I here the health and retirement bennies are decent, too.
>>
>> The stock market has criticized the company at times in the past and
>> downgraded them, saying they could be more profitable offering fewer
>> employee perks.
>>
>
>Funny how that works, eh. The guys with the most perks really hate to
>see other people getting something good. They don't even need to start
>feeling challenged until the peons are getting more than 10% of their pay.


The stock market is, to me, just a form a gambling. Where dividends
and slow, steady growth used to be goals, inflated pump and dump seems
to have more appeal now.

I am out of the demographic of the Elon Musk mentality investors. I am
sure my blood pressure meds help, too.