This point has been made over and over again in conversations about engineers, developers etc. How about the highly skilled start demanding a better wage and stop working for those who would "underpay" them. No manager will ever notice your fine contribution and start paying you your "worth", so act accordingly.

We all agree that there is something wrong when the guy on top make 400 times as much as the average worker, but while no one is willing to stop enabling this situation NOTHING will change. So either stop playing the enabler or start making the most of the situation.

I will never understand why the question of man's culpability is so important to anyone - except as a means of misdirection. If we can agree that global warming is a real phenomenon and that its effects are detrimental to our lives, then surely the logical next question is "What can we do about it?". Saying anything else is like NOT launching the life boats on the titanic, because the captain was not a fault. The mind boggles.

The Dodger is not talking about investing for a savings portfolio, but about "Market Making" which is when an organization commits to making sure there is liquidity in a certain market by always providing a price at which they will buy and one at which they will sell. It is then up to the market maker to set his prices such that he makes a profit on the spread. There is nothing wrong with setting the quotes at (bid/ask) $0.01 / $1.000.000.