The United States used to be planted thick with $40M&#x2F;year companies. These sustained families and made modest opportunities to innovate. They could be anywhere.<p>I used to work at one. It doesn&#x27;t exist any more.<p>At some point this went out of style.<p>Because of observer bias, <i>this</i> is what I see when people talk about inequality. And I see that it was quite deliberately chosen.