"....As with any addiction, this process produces short-term euphoria, reflected in share prices, but long-term pathology, reflected in income inequality, poverty and social unrest."

Addiction is right, but it's not limited to wages in a corporate environment. The same addiction in our overly-concentrated power structure is driving the decisions to underfund schools, infrastructure, healthcare, etc. The same "me-first" philosophy produced the recent tax law that will add billions to the deficit in the coming years.

So frustrating.