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Consider Burj Khalifa.

It’s widely understood to be a triumph of architecture and engineering, for the most part due to its height and beauty.

I think so too, although I know nothing important about it. If I had an office on the 157th floor that was too warm or cold, the facilities manager might or might not agree with my assessment of the building – he might consider the HVAC system to be an engineering disaster, just as the network engineers responsible for cable management might or might not appreciate the provisions for cable runs and wiring closets.

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Over the past decade, employment growth netted zero. Personal assets actually declined. For middle-income families, so did wages. (Source: “A Decade of Zeroes,” Dirk van Dijk of Zacks Investment Research, 1/4/2010.)

It appears our national economic experiment of attempting to build an economy on finance, services, and information, leaving such trivialities as manufacturing to other less enlightened nations, hasn’t panned out.

Our collective economic experience of narrowly averted economic depression got me wondering about what we do in the United States to create wealth.

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