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Forget the "piggies at the trough" analogy for wall street, think 8000 pound bull sea elephant getting fatter and fatter to attract a larger and larger herd of cows. Bull seals put on flab for competitive reasons: the bigger the bull, the greater its chances of thrashing other males on the beach to win a harem of cows. When the fattest seals always win, they are more successful in passing their genes to the next generation leading to a fatter seal population over time. There is a social cost to fatter seals. The Cornell economist Robert Frank has pointed out, the social costs of fatter bull elephant seals come clear when you consider that at 8,000 pounds it is pretty difficult to out-swim a great white shark.
Workers in BMW's auto plants in Germany make twice as much as US workers in BMW plants who make $15 an hour. Oh and by the way German workers get 35 days of vacation AND decent healthcare.
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