I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.
We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.
Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.
You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.
If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.
