What their jet setting top of the line celebrity studded lifestyles, rather than serious investments in economic value creation for the entire society. . is NOT a good thing for our aspirations of being a model Democratic society. Money is not created out of thin air. Most of the people I know are not benefiting from Dow 16000. What I beleive Dow 16000 symbolizes is the disconnect between those control the economy and the supporting structures such as the political, cultural and social systems. The job of the elites in each of these sectors is to social confirmity to the imperatives of those who control the core which Marx correctly noted was based on those who could create and control the flow of Capital. When Forbes mag notes that the Top richest 1000 are gaining significantly while the economy is according to GDP just crawling along, that Dow 16000 is mean